Family Day? Heritage Day?

Today, we Nova Scotians are celebrating Family Day, ah, Heritage Day, our mid-winter provincial holiday.
This is not an official National holiday, though it is celebrated on this date in a number of provinces.
Here is a clue as to what it should be called:

Back in the early 1970s, the idea of a national midwinter holiday (and we really NEED one!) was proposed by Stanley Knowles (our longest-serving member of Parliament) in the House of Commons.
He would talk about it at every opportunity, and although it was discussed in every kitchen and coffee shop in the nation, such a holiday has never been proclaimed.
Some 30 years later, a number of provinces came forward with their own local proposals, so we now have the following hodgepodge of holidays:
- - Heritage Day (Alberta), on the first Monday in February;
- - Heritage Day (Nova Scotia), Louis Riel Day (Manitoba), Islander Day (PEI), on the third Monday in February;
- - Family Day, in Ontario and Saskatchewan, and British Columbia, also on the third Monday in February;
- - Yukon Heritage Day, (Yukon) on the third Friday in February.
However, The second and third Mondays in February are regular working days in Quebec, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, NWT and Nunavut!
As Family Day is not recognized in the federal sphere, federal employees in all provinces (such as public servants and postal workers) work on this day.
Back here in Nova Scotia, it has a permanent name, 'Nova Scotia Heritage Day.' Each year, it honours a different person or event, chosen by Nova Scotian school children; last year, the first was Viola Desmond.
She was a Black Nova Scotian businesswoman who challenged racial segregation at a cinema in New Glasgow, in 1946. She refused to leave a whites-only seating area and was unjustly convicted of a minor tax violation used to enforce segregation.
Desmond's case is one of the most publicized incidents of racial discrimination in Canadian history and helped start the modern civil rights movement in Canada.
Desmond acted nine years before the famed incident by U.S. civil-rights activist Rosa Parks, with whom Desmond is often compared.
This year, we salute Joseph Howe, journalist, orator, poet, politician, and public servant, from the latter half of the 1800s.
He was instrumental in helping Nova Scotia become the first British colony to win responsible government in 1848.
He campaigned as a fierce proponent of a free press, and led the unsuccessful fight against Confederation, which he felt was bad for the province.
Here is my solution to the holiday name confusion: let's proclaim a national mid-winter holiday, called 'Canada Flag Day.'