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A very personal history of Victoria Day 1945 Stay in the loop Sign up for our free email newsletter. Unsubscribe anytime or contact us for details. A hundred years after Victoria Day became a legal holiday in what was not yet even Canada, on the Friday before the Victoria Day holiday in 1945, my dad splurged and spent three dollars on firecrackers at a store on Oakwood Avenue. Among his purchases were Pinwheels, Comets, Whiz-bangs, Fountains, Sparklers, and a Burning Schoolh...