HAPPY LABOR/LABOUR DAY Robert White, born April 28, 1935 in Upper Lands, Northern Ireland was a prominent leader in the Canadian Trade union and labor movement. Born in Northern Ireland, he immigrated with his family to Canada at age 13, settling in Woodstock, Ontario. Labor Day is now in essence American and Canadian holiday which originated in Canada. Following labor disputes in Toronto, the first worker parades occurred in 1872. Soon after, anti labor union laws were repealed. A decade later, union activist Peter McGuire, whom some call the founder of our American Labor Day, spoke at a Canadian Labor festival in 1882 and was so impressed that he proposed the idea of a workers' national holiday to a New York labor union later that same year. The rest is history of the making of Robert White...