While Victoria Day is celebrated on the last Monday before May 25 in honour of Queen Victoria’s birthday, it is a very Canadian holiday:
Victoria Day is also commonly referred to as the “May two-four weekend” or the “May long weekend” and it marks the unofficial start of the cottage season where cases of beer* are consumed by hard working Canadians. That’s what we heard anyway. Or maybe it’s called May two-four because May 24, 1819 is Queen Victoria’s birthday 🙂
Happy National Patriots’ Day, Quebecers!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Patriots%27_Day
This was the day Lower Canada (Quebec) rebelled against those nasty British and their naughty Queen Victoria!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Canada_Rebellion