else on the island. The celebration known as the Bay Fest, beginning on August 1 and lasting several days, is held in the settlement of Hatchet Bay on the island of Eleuthera, and "Back to the Bay" is held in the settlement of Tarpum Bay, also on Eleuthera. Barbados Emancipation Day in Barbados is part of the annual "Season of Emancipation", which began in 2005. The Season runs from April 14 to August 23. Commemorations include: the anniversary of Bussa's rebellion, a major slave rebellion in 1816, April 14 National Heroes Day, April 28; Crop Over festival, which includes May, June and the first week of August Africa Day, May 25 Day of National Significance, which commemorates the Labour Rebellion of 1937, July 26 Emancipation Day, August 1 birthday of Marcus Garvey, August 17 International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, August 23 Emancipation Day celebrations usually feature a walk from Independence Square in Bridgetown to the Heritage Village at the Crop Over Bridgetown Market on the Spring Garden Highway. At the Heritage Village, in addition to a concert, there is a wreath-laying ceremony as a tribute to the ancestors. Traditionally, the Prime Minister, the Minister for Culture, and representatives of the Commission for Pan African Affairs are among those laying wreaths. Belize Starting 2021, Belize joins other Caribbean nations in the observance of Emancipation Day on 1 August to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved people in the Caribbean in 1834. Bermuda Bermuda celebrates its Emancipation Day on the Thursday before the first Monday in August, placing it in either July or August. British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands: The first Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of August are celebrated as "August Festival". Canada In March 2021, the Canadian House of Commons voted unanimously on a motion to recognize 1 August as Emancipation Day across Canada. However, African-Canadian communities have commemorated Emancipation Day since the 1800s, most notably Black communities in the towns of Windsor, Owen Sound, Amherstburg, and Sandwich, in Ontario, and provinces including New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The first of August marks the day the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 ended slavery in the British Empire in 1834 and, thus, also in Canada. However, the first colony in the British Empire to have anti-slavery legislation was Upper Canada, now Ontario. John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, passed the 1793 Act