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This weekend, I have been fortunate to host a visit from the pulchritudinous Plus-One, who after enduring a murderous examination in her graduate landfill-design course (landfill design, I kid you not), managed to find her way to Montreal to celebrate Victor -- erhm, la Journée nationale des patriotes. Apparently, Quebec suffers from the delusion that those in the Rest Of Canada are actually fierce loyalist stock who spend the May long weekend grieving the memory of our beloved Queen Victoria. In any case, rather than swilling beer in the name of Her Royal Majesty, Quebeckers knocked back their social lubricant in the name of Adam Dollard des Ormeaux, a Frenchman who was slaughtered in an aborted ambush against the Iroquois who had been threatening Montreal. In 2002, however, the Assemblé Nationale bid M. Dollard des Ormeaux a fond farewell, and changed the holiday's name to (roughly translated), 'National Patriots Day'. In any case, be it for a long-dead adversary of the Canadian aboriginals or a cousin-marryin' British monarch, make sure to tip your glass tonight, and enjoy a lazy sleep-in tomorrow morning.