Yes it is a holiday finally, and I get to enjoy the first long weekend since Easter (which seems a long way away). No stores are open around me, but Ottawa has some benefits that other Ontario cities don’t have because we have the Rideau Center, which is deemed a “Tourist Area” so all of its stores will be open and we are across the river from Gatineau/Hull and there all stores are open today. Will I go shopping? I might run to Tim Horton’s to have a Pro-Monarchist Coffee and Donut, but that is about it.
Happy Victoria Day
Why do we celebrate this holiday still? We need a holiday in May as simple a reason as that. In Quebec they call it Journée nationale des patriotes , and not much is closed (so maybe I can get my beer over there?).
Happy holidays mate. We’re on the road today but like you will likely just grab a coffee and enjoy the lovely day today. 🙂
I only get 1 day, Victoria Day, off this weekend.
I would like to say thank you to the person who decided that I should get paid to cut my grass and nap on this cloudy Monday. Statutory holidays seem like a guilty pleasure.
Thanks a Union for that one. Were it not for the Trade Union movement of the late 19th century we’d be working 365 days a year.
We also like to copy the Americans. I’m not sure we’d get Canada Day off if they didn’t get the 4th.