Canberra Day is a public
holiday held annually on the second Monday in March in the Australian
Capital Territory
(ACT) to celebrate the official naming of Canberra
.
Canberra was named at a ceremony on
March
12 1913 by
Lady
Denman, the wife of the then
Governor-General Lord Denman.
On
3 March 2007, ACT
Minister
Andrew Barr introduced a bill
to change the day of Canberra Day to the
second Monday in
March so it falls closer to the actual birthday of Canberra.
Previously it had been held on the third Monday in March.
See also
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