Victoria Day
![Victoria Day fireworks display from [[Ontario Place]], Toronto, in 2010](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Victoria_Day_fireworks_Toronto_2010.jpg)
The same date is also, since 1952, recognized as the currently reigning Canadian monarch's official birthday (though, previously, that event had been marked in Canada typically on each monarch's actual birthday). In Quebec, before 2003, the Monday preceding May 25 of each year was unofficially the , a commemoration of Adam Dollard des Ormeaux, initiated in the 1920s to coincide with Victoria Day. In 2003, provincial legislation officially created National Patriots' Day () on the same date. Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Kerryanne Johnson, Stacey Neilson, Andrew To, Nezar Amir, Andrew Cave, Tony Scott, Martin Orr, Mia Parata, Victoria Day, Patrick GladdingGet full text
Published 2015-05-01
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