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<blockquote data-quote="texan" data-source="post: 974193" data-attributes="member: 38206">Victoria Day, Canadian holiday on which the British sovereign’s birthday is celebrated. In 1845, during the reign of Queen Victoria, May 24, the queen’s birthday, was declared a holiday in Canada. After Victoria’s death in 1901, an act of the Canadian Parliament established Victoria Day as a legal holiday, to be celebrated on May 24 (or on May 25 when May 24 fell on a Sunday). The birthday of Victoria’s son, Edward VII (born November 9), was also celebrated on Victoria Day, following an&nbsp;intermittent British custom of celebrating a sovereign’s birthday on that of his predecessor.<a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/858520/Victoria-Day" target="_blank">Victoria Day (Canadian holiday) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="texan, post: 974193, member: 38206"] [B]Victoria Day, Canadian holiday on which the British sovereign’s birthday is celebrated. In 1845, during the reign of Queen Victoria, May 24, the queen’s birthday, was declared a holiday in Canada. After Victoria’s death in 1901, an act of the Canadian Parliament established Victoria Day as a legal holiday, to be celebrated on May 24 (or on May 25 when May 24 fell on a Sunday). The birthday of Victoria’s son, Edward VII (born November 9), was also celebrated on Victoria Day, following an intermittent British custom of celebrating a sovereign’s birthday on that of his predecessor. [/B] [url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/858520/Victoria-Day]Victoria Day (Canadian holiday) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia[/url] [/QUOTE]

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