Newfoundland and Labrador Memorial Day
Newfoundland and Labrador Memorial Day is held on July 1. This event in the first decade of the month July is annual. 
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While Canadians celebrate nationhood July 1, the date means something very different to the people of Newfoundland and Labrador. Memorial Day has been observed annually since 1 July 1917, to recall the losses of approximately 700 soldiers of the 1st Newfoundland Regiment from the Dominion of Newfoundland at Beaumont-Hamel on the first day on the Somme during the First World War. Nearly 90 per cent of the Newfoundland Regiment was wiped out.
The grassy terrain around the Newfoundland War Memorial in northwestern France is still scarred by shell craters and the trenches from which the Newfoundland Regiment clambered into No Man's Land on this day 100 years ago. The effects of that lethal engagement at Beaumont-Hamel, in the first hours of the Battle of the Somme, are still deeply felt in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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