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Victoria Day always confuses me. The page says it falls on the Monday before May 25 (May 24 being a good day to fall on seeing as it's the actual birthday of Victoria. Hence the popular expression "May 2-4"), but in 2004 May 24th was a Monday and yet Victoria Day was the week before on May 17. At least, that's how it went in Ontario. Does someone just arbitrarily decide ahead of time if it will be the 3rd or 4th Monday of the month?
Shouldn't St-Jean Baptiste be renamed to Fête nationale du Québec as it is now officially (I think) called?
March 20th is Stephen Colbert Day in Oshawa, as declared by the mayor.
November 27, 2007
This list is a bit of a mess. Personally, I'd like to see this list limited to those holidays which are actually statutory (federal and provincial), and exclude holidays that are granted only to certain employees through collective agreements, and also exclude whatever an "optional" holiday is, which seems to be just any day that someone might have off. I'd also like to see the list referenced to official government sources and other reliable publications, not the "timeanddate" and "statholidays" websites which are frequently user-submitted and/or just wrong. Any thoughts?
Also, I think that the national day of mourning for the Queen ought to be moved to its own section outside of the lists, since it's a one-time holiday. Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 20:43, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
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Victoria Day always confuses me. The page says it falls on the Monday before May 25 (May 24 being a good day to fall on seeing as it's the actual birthday of Victoria. Hence the popular expression "May 2-4"), but in 2004 May 24th was a Monday and yet Victoria Day was the week before on May 17. At least, that's how it went in Ontario. Does someone just arbitrarily decide ahead of time if it will be the 3rd or 4th Monday of the month?
Shouldn't St-Jean Baptiste be renamed to Fête nationale du Québec as it is now officially (I think) called?
March 20th is Stephen Colbert Day in Oshawa, as declared by the mayor.
November 27, 2007
This list is a bit of a mess. Personally, I'd like to see this list limited to those holidays which are actually statutory (federal and provincial), and exclude holidays that are granted only to certain employees through collective agreements, and also exclude whatever an "optional" holiday is, which seems to be just any day that someone might have off. I'd also like to see the list referenced to official government sources and other reliable publications, not the "timeanddate" and "statholidays" websites which are frequently user-submitted and/or just wrong. Any thoughts?
Also, I think that the national day of mourning for the Queen ought to be moved to its own section outside of the lists, since it's a one-time holiday. Ivanvector ( Talk/ Edits) 20:43, 14 September 2022 (UTC)