20 May 2019

On that day, on the 35th birthday of Queen Victoria in 1854, about 5,000 residents of Canada went to the Government House (near today’s King and Simcoe Streets in Toronto) to congratulate their Queen.

After the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, May 24 was made an official Victoria Day when people give honours to the Queen who was known as the “Mother of Confederation”.

Since then Victoria Day is the unofficial marker of the end of the winter social period in Canada and the beginning of the real social summer.

Have a Great Victoria Day and enjoy beautiful weather and spectacular fireworks!