Mornin' Coffee..

[Kimbo]

Good call BD, staying away from the doghouse can be a fulltime position sometimes

[big dady]

Trust me i know

[4me2c]

Happy Birthday Today to ... wickedjoker, SARGEQUANGTR (74) ...!

[Kimbo]

Good Morning Everyone, is a wet one and glomy.....which i love!!Have a great one!!

[Kimbo]

Happy Monday, Hope everyone had a good weekend!!!

[floder2]

Good morning to all................Overcast , misty and chilly for Southern Calif. ................But I'll survive .....

[big dady]

Great morning everyone and happy Victoria day to all the Canadians enjoy the extra day off

[floder2]

Do the people of Quebec celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday ??

[crazed 9.6]

Do the people of Quebec celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday ??

Ironically, Quebec was responsible for this civic holiday

Quebec is part of Canada and that will not be changed, no matter how much the Quebec'ers would like it changed.
And actually the civic holiday was started because the people of Montreal back in the 1800s wanted to become part of the USA... Toronto did not like the idea at all and so made the monarchy celebration into a civic holiday, and that settled any idea of becoming part of the USA

'Celebrating the monarch’s birthday is a long tradition in Canada, according to Garry Toffoli, vice-chairman and executive director of the Canadian Royal Heritage Trust, going back to George III’s reign in the 18th and 19th century'.

'In Canada, as in England, the day was associated with the military. One day a year, they would come from their farms with their pitchforks and their muskets and whatever they have and march around for a little bit, and then they’d go to the local tavern and have a beer. '

'The monarch’s birthday became more of a civilian holiday, with picnics and horse races, in the 1840s.
But the motivation behind making it a civic holiday can be traced back to Quebec and more precisly Montreal.
In the 1840s, following a group of Anglo-Montrealers’ public declaration that they wanted Canada to join the United States (the Annexation Manifesto), people in Toronto protested by turning the Queen’s birthday into a grand patriotic holiday. The party just spread from there.


So if the people of Quebec do in fact celebrate the holiday, then that is a personal choice ... but it is a civic holiday across Canada and Quebec is part of Canada.
If you ask me, I would abolish the monarchy celebration and make turn it into something else, but if it were not for that holiday we may all be citizens of the USA right now.

[floder2]

I read sometime ago that in Quebec ...some call today National Patriots Day