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Victoria Day Hours, Queen Victoria, and yachts

victoria_2112685iSince about 1845, Canada has been celebrating May 24th, Queen Victoria’s Birthday. Following her death in 1901, it was officially named ‘Victoria Day’.

Queen Victoria was fond of the sea, and of yachting.  During her reign, HM Yachts Victoria and Albert, Victoria and Albert II, and Victoria and Albert III were built, the last of which was commissioned in 1901, several months after the monarch’s death. Other Royal Yachts included the Fairy, Elfin, and Osborne. Queen Victoria also had a front-row seat for watching some of the most beautiful and fastest yachts of the late 19th century, as Osborne House in East Cowes on the Isle of Wight was a major royal residence during the Queen’s reign. It was a Royal retreat, and is telling that Victoria chose a holiday home by the sea.

Of course, the Victoria Day holiday is still closely associated with yachting, and the beginning of the summer sailing season (at least, when the lakes aren’t cold as ice).

This holiday weekend, the Store is open normal hours:
Saturday 10-6
Sunday 12-5
Monday 10-5

 

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