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Dear Alex,
Yes, Victoria Day is a big holiday for us Canadians. It is Queen Victoria's birthday, which is on May 24th. We celebrate it on the Monday on or before the 24th. It is always on the Monday so people can have a long weekend and have enough time to enjoy camping or going to the cottage in the north.

Our nickname for the holiday is the May 2 4 weekend (May two four) because of the double meaning (the 24th of May, and because we drink a lot of beer on this day and a case of beer is 24 bottles or cans -- so a case of beer is called a two four)

We have four long weekends in the summer, and this is the first one. So even though summer technically starts on June 21st, in our minds, the summer starts on the May 2 4 long weekend.

Cheers!
Nancy