In honor of my favorite holiday, Victoria Day, I give you this video of a song that is about this Canadian holiday which is being celebrated today.
I get a kick out of this video due to all of the Peanuts gang clips. Anyway, I mentioned this last year but I didn’t provide the song I was referring to in the post. Basically, I am a fan of this holiday for several reasons:
1. It is a holiday that celebrates the former Queen of England, Victoria, who reigned from 1837 through her death in 1901. This has been the longest that any English monarch has sat on the throne. (By the way, that DID make me giggle…’sat on the throne’, hehehe.) Queen Victoria and I share a birthday, May 24, the date which this holiday was typically celebrated.
2. This holiday is also one to celebrate the birth of the current Canadian sovereign’s birthday, which so happens to be the British monarch. I have an affinity towards the Brits and would consider myself a Brit in training with all of the BBC we watch, their terminology/words I like to use, I enjoy their music, and the list goes on and on.
3. The aforementioned song by Canadian power trio Rush is one that I have enjoyed since I was in the first grade. I own two vinyl copies of their Caress Of Steel record as well as a CD copy that has this tune. I just always got a giggle out of the fact that this band wrote a song about people gathering and celebrating on my birthday. Granted I have since learned that they were celebrating this holiday and NOT my birthday but it was still cool.
Anyway, have a great today and celebrate a wonderful holiday with our Canadian, Scottish and Cayman brethren.
