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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.
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Quebec is under Canadian rule.
They can call it anything they want, but in the books it is same across the country.
I should not get started on Quebec and it's visions of separatism.
Seperatism means more then just the province of Quebec seperating. It means we would have to build a very expansive bridge right over top of the whole province of Quebec, in order to travel our great country from coast to coast
My appologies if I offended anyone, that was not my intention. In fact I respect the people of Quebec , just never liked their ideas of what Canada should do or should be.... thank the heavens for beer and taverns
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Monarchy isn't that the imaginatory belief that some people are better than other people because of their inbred family tree
yes, I do believe that you are correct
Canada history is not the prettiest. There was some real conflicts beteen the English and French. Jaque Cartier a Frenchman did travel up the St Lawerence River before any English did, hence the French settlements up river and into the Great Lakes (Montreal is ip there). But this land is and should be recognized as the native peoples land. The name Canada came from the native tongue....Kannada
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