OT: Victoria Day

Our excessively monarchist priest was telling me how we would mark Victoria Day by singing God Save the Queen at the end of the service. He lamented that most people don't know the holiday as Victoria Day anymore. I told him that we prairie folk use it to commemorate an early settler, a Chinese woman immigrant, whose customs we often didn't understand. He walked right into it, and asked who that was. I answered, "May Long. That why we exchange the traditional commemoration, "Watcha doin' May Long?" Dawne, thinking May deserves a statue somewhere

"Dawne Peterson" ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

Beast ! In NS we still refer to it as the Victoria Day weekend - you're probably right though, some kids might not know who the Victoria was she could just as easily be May!

All right, is this some Canuck thing? I don't get it.....

Joan

Thanks, Joan. I didn't want to be the first to admit it.

You`re not alone - I thought she`d flipped but was too polite to say so. You know me!!! ;-D

Pat P

Well, add me to the list.

Gill

Me too

Glad to know there are others ...

Felice

Answering herself, she reports:

Found this on a campsite website when I googled May Long: "Campsites still available at Valens for May Long Weekend". OK, now I get it. Cute.

Felice:

I read it in the middle of the night and decided it might make more sense 12 hours later when I was properly awake.

"Joan E." ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

Not really. We yearly celebrate the anniversary of Queen Victoria's birthday, makes a long weekend.

I took May Long to be the long weekend in May lol

Sorry to befuddle everyone--but no one out here calls the weekend "Victoria Day Weekend". It is referred to by everyone as "May Long". Not "the May long weekend", just "May Long." Thus one asks one's buds, "watcha doin' May Long??". Guess you have to be wearing a bunnyhug to get it. Dawne

So, is it pronounced "my" long--sort of a Chinese version? If that's the case, it would make sense. Still doesn't make sense if it's pronounced "may" as in the month, to my ears! Course, it might just be me! :)

Joan

"Joan E." ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

'Nope, it's a contraction of 'the May long weekend' using just May long - and she might as well have some statues in her honour too.

Jeez Dawne, whoda thunk it ??

I haven't worn a bunnyhug in ages! :)

We often call it "May Long" here in Alberta and yes it is pronounced mae not my.

Addie

What's a bunnyhug?

Cheryl

OK you "furriners" - what the dickens is a bunnyhug?

Pat P