PLACES, EVENTS AND REPRESENTATIVE CHARACTERS OF CANADA BANFF Stanley Banff National Park TOWER CN 1 of January New Year. March / April: Good Friday and Easter Monday. May 24: Victory Day. July 1: Canada Day September 6: Labor Day. October 11: Thanksgiving Day. November 11: Remembrance Day. 25th December, Christmas. Pierre Trudeau, former liberal prime minister Terry Fox, an athlete who ran across the country in the name of the fight against cancer Tommy Douglas, former NPD leader Lester B. Pearson, former liberal prime minister Chris Hadfield, the well-known astronaut David Suzuki, environmental activist Jack Layton, former NPD leader, who died in 2011 of cancer Sir John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada Wayne Gretzky, the best hockey player in history Romeo Dallaire, a Canadian military who fought against the genocide in Rwanda