El Ranar aiki a Kanada ana yin bikin ne a ranar Litinin ɗin farko na Satumba a Kanada tun 1880. Asalin ranar ma'aikata a Kanada ana iya dawowa zuwa Afrilu 14, 1872 lokacin da aka shirya fareti don tallafawa yajin aikin Typographic Union na Toronto don aikin awa 58 mako.
Ofisoshin Majalisar na Toronto (TTA) sun yi kira ga kungiyoyin kwadagon su 27 da su yi zanga-zangar nuna goyon baya ga kungiyar Typographic Union da ke yajin aiki tun 25 ga Maris. George Brown, ɗan siyasan Kanada kuma editan jaridar Toronto Globe ya mayar da martani ga ma'aikatansa da ke yajin aiki ta hanyar latsa 'yan sanda da ke kula da Typographic Union don' makircin. Kodayake dokokin da ke lalatata ayyukan ƙungiyar kwadago ba su daɗe kuma an riga an soke su a Biritaniya, har yanzu suna kan littattafai a Kanada kuma ’yan sanda sun kame shugabannin 24 na poungiyar Typographic Union.
Shugabannin Kwadago sun yanke shawarar kiran wani zanga-zangar makamancin wannan a ranar 3 ga Satumba don nuna rashin amincewa da kamun. Kungiyoyin kwadago bakwai sun yi zanga-zanga a Ottawa, lamarin da ya sa Firayim Ministan Kanada Sir John A. Macdonald soke dokar "dabbanci," dokokin adawa da kungiyar har sai Majalisar Dokoki ta zartar da dokar kungiyar a ranar 14 ga Yunin shekarar. aikin sa'a-a-mako.
A ranar 23 ga Yuli, 1894, Firayim Ministan Kanada John Thompson da gwamnatinsa suka sanya Ranar Ma'aikata, wanda za a kiyaye a watan Satumba, ranar hutu a hukumance. A Amurka, faretin na New York ya zama taron shekara-shekara a shekarar, kuma a cikin 1894 Shugaban Amurka Grover Cleveland ya karbe shi don yin gogayya da Ranar Ma'aikata ta Duniya (Mayu).
Yayinda ƙungiyoyin kwadagon ke shirya faretin ranar kwadago da wasan kwaikwayo, yawancin jama'ar Kanada suna halartar wasan wuta, ayyukan ruwa, da kuma abubuwan fasaha na jama'a. Tunda sabuwar shekarar makaranta yakan fara nan da nan bayan Ranar Aiki, iyalai da yara masu zuwa makaranta suna ɗaukar sa a matsayin dama ta ƙarshe don tafiya kafin ƙarshen bazara.
Al'adar ranar kwadago a Kanada shine Ranar Kwadago, taron Kwallon Kafa na Kanada, inda abokan hamayya irin su Calgary Stampeders da Edmonton Eskimos, da Hamilton Tiger-Cats da Toronto Argonauts, da Saskatchewan Roughriders da Winnipeg Blue wasa Masu jefa bom a ranar karshen mako aiki.
