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Yes indeed.

When I was in the military, we were told that Queen Victoria's birthday was decided on after she died. The Cdn government wanted to recognize her many years on the throne and service to England. It was originally just a military thing. An excuse, I suppose, to have a parade. It became more than that, In the early 1950s, it became an official holiday.

I don't think we should crab too loud. We never got anything from the Royals except taxation and a bill for our share of the cost to keep them in crowned jewels. We do need a May holiday. Even better, two holidays a month, plus the ones we have now. Queen Vikkie's birfday will have to do until some future federal government figures out something Canadian and national, but not a railway.