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How many working days in year 1997?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1997 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 261 days.
Now, let's remove 12 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 249 working days in 1997.
Here is the list of these 12 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Wednesday, 1 January, 1997
2. Good Friday : Friday, 28 March, 1997
3. Easter Monday : Monday, 31 March, 1997
4. Victoria Day : Monday, 19 May, 1997
5. Canada Day : Tuesday, 1 July, 1997
6. Nunavut Day : Wednesday, 9 July, 1997
7. August Civic Holiday : Monday, 4 August, 1997
8. Labour Day : Monday, 1 September, 1997
9. Thanksgiving : Monday, 13 October, 1997
10. Remembrance Day : Tuesday, 11 November, 1997
11. Christmas : Thursday, 25 December, 1997
12. Boxing Day : Friday, 26 December, 1997