Victoria Day

Its a bit late but first time I had the time to post it for the 19th.


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TDWoj

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Victoria Day here too, in Canada, eh.

Expecting lots of local fireworks tonight - in fact, a lot of firecrackers have already been going off. Don't really like the sound of firecrackers, though - too much like guns (especially since there's a nutbar living in the building next door to me that likes taking potshots with his handgun at the pigeons on my apartment building's roof. One never knows if he's actually *aiming* at anything).

I have a little work I have to do today, and then, having received my Steven Seagal dvds, I shall treat myself to Exit Wounds this evening, fireworks (outside) be damned. A little fireworks (inside) from watching Steven is more than enough....

(-T, rapidly falling victim to the vapors)
 

TDWoj

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Staff member
Didn't know you were Canadian! (I blipped over the picture, saw only the UJ in the original post).

Doh!

At least it's not raining - should be able to see the fireworks at Ontario Place from where I live.
 

Amos Stevens

New Member
Victoria Day
>Victoria Day is celebrated in Canada on the Monday prior to May 25th
>each year.
>It will be celebrated on Monday, May 21, 2001
>
>More information at these web sites:
http://home.uchicago.edu/~reziemba/victoria.html
http://www.pch.gc.ca/ceremonial-symb/english/day_vic.html
>
>
>
> The Sovereign's birthday has been celebrated in Canada since the
>reign of Queen Victoria(1837-1901). May 24, Queen Victoria's
>birthday, was declared a holiday by the Legislature of the Province
>of Canada in 1845.
>
> After Confederation, the Queen's birthday was celebrated every
>year on May 24 unless that date was a Sunday, in which case a
>proclamation was issued providing for the celebration on May 25.
>After the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, an Act was passed by the
>Parliament of Canada establishing a legal holiday on May 24 in each
>year (or May 25 if May 24 fell on a Sunday) under the name Victoria
>Day.
>
> The birthday of King Edward VII, who was born on November 9, was
>by yearly proclamation during his reign (1901-1910) celebrated on
>Victoria Day. It was not an innovation to celebrate the birthday of
>the reigning sovereign on the anniversary of the birth of a
>predecessor.
>
> In Great Britain, the birthdays of George IV (1820-1830) and
>William IV(1830-1837) were celebrated on June 4, birthday of George
>III (1760-1820). The birthday of King George V, who reigned from
>1910 to 1935, was celebrated on the actual date, June 3 or, when that
>was a Sunday, by proclamation on June 4. The one birthday of King
>Edward VIII, who reigned in 1936, was also celebrated on the actual
>date, June 23. King George VI's birthday, which fell on December 14,
>was officially celebrated in the United Kingdom on a Thursday early
>in June.
>
> Up to 1947 Canada proclaimed the same day but in 1948 and
>further years settled on the Monday of the week in which the United
>Kingdom celebration took place. George VI reigned from 1936 to1952.
>The first birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, in 1952, was also
>celebrated in June. Meanwhile, Canada continued to observe Victoria
>Day.
>
> An amendment to the Statutes of Canada in 1952 established the
>celebration of Victoria Day on the Monday preceding May 25. From
>1953 to 1956, the Queen's birthday was celebrated in Canada on
>Victoria Day, by proclamation of the Governor General, with Her
>Majesty's approval. In 1957, Victoria Day was permanently appointed
>as the Queen's birthday in Canada.
>
> In the United Kingdom, the Queen's birthday is celebrated in
>June.
>
http://www.genealogyforum.rootsweb.com/gfaol/resource/Canada/Victoria.htm
 

TDWoj

Administrator
Staff member
Originally posted by Waki Ya Cante
Thats Cool TD, have fun!!!!
Arent those Firecracker vapours a bitch? :D

Oi, you don't know the half of it. When they had the Benson & Hedges fireworks competition over at Ontario Place last year, and the wind was blowing this way, well, let's just say I know what a US Civil War battlefield smelled like...

Bleh.
 
lol, burns the eyes doesn't it.
And Glimmer I usually spat at that flag so you're lucky I put her up...
Although I might have to rethink my anarchist views because a few of m y friends are joining up in the reserves so when I'm 18 I am thinking I'm going to join up and keep an eye on them, seeing as nothing bad or deathly happens to me, and besides my uncle was in the RCM and UN peace corp and he's still ship shape and is a cop in windsor ontario.
 

GlimmerMan

Huge Member
Hahaha! Anarchy? You have no idea, son. Our country owns you!

Glimmer (was listening to 'Never Mind The Bollocks' from the age of 10...)
 
Jah jah we're still part of the commonwealth....Anyhoo if your goddamn country owns mine why the hell are the inhabitants so ****ing stupid when it comes to knowlege outside of their tiney island and their pointy eyes and noses?
 
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