As of late BC been getting snubbed by the royals.I vote we discontinue celebrating Q Vic`s Bday and make this holiday long weekend our own,like Canada Day in the park we can have another multicultural celebration in the park.I love Canada Day in the park I stuff myself like a pig,if we could have 2 of those a year that`d be great let the royals celebrate their own Bdays it`s our country we can do what we want.Like Haida Gwaii we should start getting rid of all the royal names and make it about us,meaning the multicultural society.

BC has never been snubbed by the Royals. As for Victoria Day, it should revert to being called what it was originally called, “Empire Day” , (as it still is in several Vancouver Island communities where British Columbians, of all origins, colours and creeds are not ashamed of OUR history).

As for Canada Day, what a bland, dull uninteresting name for a national holiday. Historically demeaning to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, too, in that they were also the original partners in Confederation with what was then Upper and Lower Canada (now Ontario and Quebec), when the DOMINION of Canada was formed.

It was always called with great pride “Dominion Day” until that piss-ant of a Prime Minister, Lester B Pearson, engaged in typical Liberal Party historical revisionism, in trying to replace a history that actually meant something to so many as the foundation of our nation with one that had nothing of value in it whatsoever. Lets hope the Conservatives, who in spite of any other failings had enough guts to finally re-name two branches of our Armed Forces with their proper names ~ the ‘Royal’ Canadian Air Force and ‘Royal’ Canadian Navy ~ will show a further pride in our neglected proper heritage and bring back “Dominion Day” too.

I agree with socredible……history is very important!

I believe that the Huble HOmestead folks still celebrate “Dominion Day” on July 1st:)

It’s always good to see people disdain the ‘political correctness’ that those who feel ashamed of our actual heritage want to impose on us.

There was no more wrong with the word “Dominion” in the official name of our country than there is in calling our National holiday by its original and proper name.

I read once that one excuse for dropping ‘Dominion’ was that it couldn’t be translated into French. So what? Call it ‘Dominion’, same as it is in English.

The Quebec separatists didn’t feel any more inclined to celebrate ‘Canada’ Day than they did to celebrate ‘Dominion’ Day, so why should the rest of us have to feel we have to appease them?