Which holidays are unique to Qu茅bec?

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Which holidays are unique to Qu茅bec?

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1. On July 1st of every year Qu茅bec streets are jammed with our official migration 鈥?known locally as MOVING DAY. This is the day that everybody who wants to move, does. Leases (rental contracts) all run from July 1st to June 30th. If a person decides to leave his parents鈥?home, or gets married on, say, February 1st, a lease is made up to run from February 1st to June 30th of the same year, or June 30th of the next year鈥ust to get him in line with the rest of the province.

2. What makes matters worse is the fact that July 1st is Canada day - a celebration of confederacy.
3. 鈥淗oliday is Here鈥?thread brought up an other Qu茅bec quirkiness 鈥?the construction holidays. In Qu茅bec, 80 percent of the population takes their vacation during the last two weeks of July. Shops close down, warehouses and manufacturers grind to a halt and offices are shut down. Naturally, beaches and resorts are full, and you can鈥檛 get a room for the life of you.
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LOL at the moving day answer!

June 24th is Quebec's Fete Nationale--yes that does mean national holiday. The only people allowed to work are restaurant staff and the inspectors making sure no one else works. June 24th is the feast of St John the Baptist (St-Jean-Baptiste), the patron saint of Quebec. The song is:

Gens du pays,
c'est 脿 notre tour,
de nous laisser
parler d'amour.

I'd tell you what it means in English but I might get shot.

The other holiday is the 3rd I think Monday in May. The rest of Canada celebrates Victoria Day then, but there's no way Quebecers will do that. But they're certainly not going to turn up for work in protest, so the government every few years comes up with something/someone to honour until such time as someone else complains. It used to be Dollard-des-Ormeaux, but he turned out to be a nasty First Nation killing kind of guy. I believe the holiday is currently known as "Fete des Vieux-Patriotes" referring to the Quebec settlers who tried but failed to fight off the English in 1764 or so.
I'm from there