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Victoria Day
Victoria Day is a public holiday in Canada, celebrated on the Monday on or before May 24, Queen Victoria's birthday. In Canada, this holiday and Canada Day are celebrated with fireworks.
This is the first of the summer long weekends[?] in Canada.
In Quebec, the Parti Quebecois government renamed the holiday Dollard des Ormeaux[?] Day, and in 2002 changed that to la Fête des Patriotes in honour of the Patriotes Rebellion. Most anglophone Quebecers continue to call it Victoria Day.
Other Commonwealth countries celebrate the Queen's birthday on other days.
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