>>Don't you guys get like Queen Victoria Day and Empire/COmmonwealth Day or some such? WE don't "remember" our monarch. And Thanksgiving you must have stolen off the Americans?
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>Yup, we get Victoria day still. Not sure what it's now called in this provecnce. But we get it off. We have our 'Liberation' from UK day as well. ;) 3 days before the US does theirs. It only took us 93 more years.
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>As for Thanksgiving, it's on a different day. It's 1 month earlier. Guess we're thankfull it's not as cold that day.

I guess with it being so cold "up there" (actually you're probably further south than the Uk - but we got the Gulf Stream) you needed the Dene to help you out sooner than your southern neighbours did :-)

I guess Vicky Day really irks the Quebecois (like the statue to her, and the Nelson's Column, in Montreal), but they don't mind the day off. What about the other one I mentioned?

God, I wish we had a day off for all the countries that were "liberated" from us. I remember back in the 60's I used to watch the Union Flag descending yet another flag-pole practically every week (probably about the same rate at which Old Glory was going up in yet another island base) :-)

Incidentally, UK gets 8 in all, I think one of the lowest in Europe (if not THE), and lower than over there I think. BUT we DO get them when we need them, like New Years Day and Boxing Day. We have 2 in May, then a long drag until end of August.