Is today (Monday, May 22nd) a National Holiday in Canada?
Question by 2007_Shelby_GT500: Is today (Monday, May 22nd) a National Holiday in Canada?
I need to schedule a conference call and I just realized some of the participants are in Canada.
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Answer by Stacy R
Yes, it’s Victoria Day
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Yes, Victoria day, whatever that is
Yes, it is Victoria Day.
Yup.
http://www.earthcalendar.net/_php/lookup.php?mode=date&m=05&d=22&y=2006
Oui
Yes, it’s Victoria Day (French: Fête de la Reine) which is a Canadian Statutory Holiday celebrated on the Monday on or before May 24 in honour of both Queen Victoria’s birthday and the current reigning Canadian Sovereign’s birthday.
While Victoria Day is often thought of as a purely Canadian event, it is also celebrated in some parts of Scotland, particularly in Edinburgh and Dundee, where it is also a public holiday.
Yes, it’s Victoria Day, a holiday named after Queen Victoria.
But that doesn’t mean all participants in your conference call won’t be available. People employed by international companies sometimes follow the holidays of the country the company’s head office is based in.
Victoria Day (French: Fête de la Reine) is a Canadian Statutory Holiday celebrated on the Monday on or before May 24 in honour of both Queen Victoria’s birthday and the current reigning Canadian Sovereign’s birthday.
Since 1901 the date of 24 May had been celebrated throughout the British Empire as Empire Day. An amendment to the Statutes of Canada in 1952 moved the holiday to the Monday before 25 May. However, over the decades the official date of the reigning Sovereign’s birthday changed through various Royal proclamations. For Edward VII it continued on 24 May, but was 3 June for George V, 23 June for Edward VIII (their actual birthdays), and various days between 20 May and 14 June through George VI’s reign as King of Canada. From 1953 Empire Day was made the date of Queen Elizabeth II’s official birthday in Canada by annual Vice-regal proclamation, the link being made permanent in 1957. In 1958 Empire Day was renamed Commonwealth Day.
In 1977 Commonwealth Day was moved to the second Monday in March, but Canadians continued to celebrate Victoria Day in May.
Yes it is, Victoria Day. Which celebrates the birth of Queen Victoria.
The people you need to talk to are probably up at the cottage drinking beer.
They should be back Tuesday.
(I went to the cottage on Friday but came back on Saturday the weather was so sucky.)
Ask them if they polished off their Two Four and if the Black Flies were biting!
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This holiday may be celebrated with fireworks. Some will use Victoria Day as a day to celebrate the Monarch’s birthday, including official events organized by local government, or monarchist groups, but to the majority of Canadians the day is simply a holiday off from work, with little specific meaning.
This holiday is regarded as the beginning of the unofficial “summer season” in Canada, and is thus the weekend when many businesses, parks, etc., that operate during warm weather months, will open. This makes it a very popular holiday. This long weekend also often signifies the beginning of spring to gardeners in much of the country as it falls around the time when they can be fairly certain frost will not return until the next winter.
It is known colloquially as “May two-four weekend”. The phrase has two meanings, the first is the fact that it always falls on or before 24 May, and secondly, those who celebrate will often get together to drink beer (a two-four is a case of 24 bottles of beer). Note that the holiday may be referred to as “May two-four” even if it falls as early as May 18.
In many parts of eastern and central Canada, the Victoria Day long weekend is known as The May Long Weekend. Traditionally, people celebrate the long weekend by camping, but the unpredictable nature of Newfoundland’s spring can bring bad weather such as rain, fog, or even snow.
In Northern Ontario, Alberta, and some other parts of Canada, this holiday weekend is also known as “May Long”, or “May Run”. It is also commonly referred to as The May Two-Four – a pointed reference to the date on the calendar, and “Two-Four” being used to describe a case of beer, and hence the holiday.
Though, as a national holiday, it is still an official holiday in Quebec, the Quebec National Assembly has dedicated the same day as a provincial holiday: National Patriots Day (Journée nationale des patriotes), which commemorates the English-Canadian and French-Canadian Patriotes of the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837. Before 2003 the holiday in Quebec was referred to by some as the Fête de Dollard after Adam Dollard des Ormeaux.
Victoria Day
yes, it is a National holiday — but a lot of the companies in Canada – still work on this holiday – so depending on who you are calling – they could be in today at their place of business..
Yes, we are celebrating the Queen
Victoria’s Birthday.
it’s victoria day.
yes, it is the “24″ weekend to celebrate a Queen of England years ago. Now the “24″ for the weekend is a case of Beer a 24 pack. Also the unofficial start to summer.