Tag Archives: Victoria Day

Victoria Day 2015

by | May 18, 2015

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*… Read more »

Queen Victoria’s Birthday Revised

by | May 19, 2014

The Naughty Atheists team shared its vision of a new and improved May long weekend  on the Canadian Atheist Facebook page: Today Canadians are celebrating Queen Victoria’s birthday, a public holiday, celebrating a 19th century monarch, head of the church of England with antiquated social and moral values, not reflecting the majority of modern 21st… Read more »