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How many working days in year 2017?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2017 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 260 days.
Now, let's remove 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 2017.
Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day (observance) : Monday, 2 January, 2017
2. Louis Riel Day : Monday, 20 February, 2017
3. Good Friday : Friday, 14 April, 2017
4. Victoria Day : Monday, 22 May, 2017
5. Canada Day (observance) : Monday, 3 July, 2017
6. Labour Day : Monday, 4 September, 2017
7. Thanksgiving : Monday, 9 October, 2017
8. Christmas : Monday, 25 December, 2017
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. New Year's Day : Sunday, 1 January, 2017
2. Canada Day : Saturday, 1 July, 2017