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I Only Want to Be with You
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Not to be confused with Only Wanna Be with You.
"I Only Want to Be with You"
Single by Dusty Springfield
from the album Stay Awhile/I Only Want to Be with You
B-side
"Once Upon a Time"
Released
8 November 1963
Format
7"
Recorded
1963, Olympic Studios, London
Genre
Pop
Length
2:37
Label
Philips
Songwriter(s)
Mike Hawker and Ivor Raymonde
Producer(s)
Johnny Franz
Dusty Springfield singles chronology
"I Only Want to Be with You"
(1963) "Stay Awhile"
(1964)
"I Only Want To Be With You"
(1963) "Stay Awhile"
(1964)
"I Only Want to Be with You" is a rock and roll song written by Mike Hawker[1] and Ivor Raymonde. The debut solo single released by British singer Dusty Springfield under her long-time producer Johnny Franz, "I Only Want to Be with You" peaked at number 4 on the UK Singles chart in January 1964. Three remakes of the song have been UK chart hits, the first two by the Bay City Rollers (1976) and the Tourists (1979) matching the number 4 peak of the Dusty Springfield original, while the 1989 remake by Samantha Fox peaked at number 16. In the US on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, "I Only Want to Be with You" has been a Top 40 hit three times, with both the Dusty Springfield original and the Bay City Rollers' remake peaking at number 12 while the Samantha Fox remake peaked at number 31. "I Only Want to Be with You" has also been recorded by a wide range of artists, several of whom sing the song with lyrics translated from the original English.
Contents
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1 Dusty Springfield version
1.1 Background
1.2 Chart performance
1.3 Weekly charts
2 Bay City Rollers version
2.1 Background
2.2 Chart performance
2.2.1 Weekly charts
2.2.2 Year-end charts
3 The Tourists version
3.1 Background
3.2 Chart performance
4 Samantha Fox version
4.1 Chart performance
4.2 Track listings
5 Luis Miguel version
5.1 Background
5.2 Music videos
5.3 Chart performance
6 Other versions
7 Uses on television
8 References
9 External links
Dusty Springfield version[edit]
Background[edit]
According to Jean Ryder, the ex-wife of songwriter Mike Hawker, "I Only Want to Be With You" was written soon after she and Hawker married on 1 December 1961, being inspired by Hawker's intense romantic feelings for his new bride. Ryder, who would later be a member of the Breakaways, had been a member of a vocal chorale, the Vernons Girls. Reportedly, she and Hawker had intended that she herself would record "I Only Want to Be With You". However, no formal arrangement for this eventuality had apparently been made by the autumn of 1963, when Hawker received a phone call from Philips A&R director Johnny Franz. Ryder paraphrases Franz as saying "Look we need something which is going to put this girl into the charts, because everybody is knocking her, everybody is saying she'll never make it [solo] - have you got a song that's a guaranteed hit?" Springfield had already recorded nine solo tracks, none of which was deemed the right vehicle to launch her solo career. With Ryder's permission, Hawker submitted "I Only Want to Be With You" to Franz, having made a demo featuring Ryder singing while keeping the beat by tapping on a biscuit tin lid. Franz, and then Springfield, approved the song, which Springfield recorded in a 25 October 1963 session at Olympic Studios, arranged and conducted by Ivor Raymonde, and recorded by engineer Keith Grant. Jean Ryder was included in the vocal chorale on the session. For unknown reasons, a version with (Dusty's) unadulterated vocals was rejected.[2][3][4]
Released in November 1963, three weeks after the Springfields' final concert, "I Only Want to Be With You" was a global success, reaching number 4 UK, number 12 US, number 6 Australia, and number 21 Canada. In the US, Dusty Springfield was the second artist of the British Invasion, after the Beatles, to have a hit, entering the Billboard chart at number 77 in the last week of January 1964 (the Beatles having "She Loves You" at number 69 and "I Want to Hold Your Hand" at number 3).
Raymonde's arrangement is unmistakable, with its relentless "ticker-ticker" beat and cascading drum rolls, full-on choirs and "Tower of Power" horn section pitched against soaring rock strings. It set the production standard for Springfield's later hits, such as "Stay Awhile" and "Little by Little". Springfield also recorded the song with an almost identical arrangement in German, with the title "Auf dich nur wart' ich immerzu".
The song was performed by Springfield on the first-ever edition of the BBC's Top of the Pops, on 1 January 1964.
The song was re-released in 1988, coinciding with its use in a soft-drink commercial, as a 7" & 12" single (see cover in infobox). It peaked at number 83 in the UK.
It also was featured as the theme song for the comedy series Arliss, which ran on HBO from 1996 to 2002.
Chart performance[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
Chart (1964)
Peak
position
Australian ARIA Charts 6
Canadian Singles Chart 21
Ireland (IRMA)[5] 7
UK Singles Chart 4
US Billboard Hot 100 12
US Cash Box Top 100 14
Bay City Rollers version[edit]
"I Only Want to Be with You"
Single by Bay City Rollers
from the album Dedication
B-side
"Write a Letter" (North America)
"Rock N' Roller" (Europe/International)
Released
August 29, 1976 (US)[6]
3 September 1976 (UK)
Format
Vinyl, 12", 7"
Recorded
June 1976
Soundstage Studio, Toronto
Genre
Rock, Power Pop
Length
3:27
Label
Arista (North America)
Bell (Europe/International)
Songwriter(s)
Mike Hawker, Ivor Raymonde
Producer(s)
Jimmy Ienner
Bay City Rollers singles US singles chronology
"Rock and Roll Love Letter"
(1976) "I Only Want to Be with You"
(1976) "Yesterday's Hero"
(1976)
"Rock and Roll Love Letter"
(1976) "I Only Want to Be with You"
(1976) "Yesterday's Hero"
(1976)
Background[edit]
The Bay City Rollers recorded "I Only Want to Be with You" for their 1976 album Dedication in June and July 1976 at Soundstage Studio in Toronto with producer Jimmy Ienner. Dedication was the first Bay City Rollers recorded under the auspices of Arista Records, and it was Arista president Clive Davis who suggested that the group remake "I Only Want to Be with You." Jimmy Ienner was chosen by Davis to produce the Bay City Rollers on the basis of Ienner's work with the Raspberries.
In the US "I Only Want to Be with You" was issued as advance single from Dedication in August 1976: that October the track reached a Billboard Hot 100 peak of number 12, besting the number 28 peak of the precedent Bay City Rollers' single "Rock and Roll Love Letter" while failing to match the Top Ten success the group had enjoyed in 1975-1976 with "Saturday Night" and in 1976 with "Money Honey". "I Only Want to Be with You" appeared to wrap up the group's burst of North American stardom as their next three US single releases were Top 40 shortfalls: however the group's fourth US single release subsequent to "I Only Want to Be With You": "You Made Me Believe in Magic", did afford the group a final Top Ten hit.
Issued in the UK as a non-album single on 3 September 1976, "I Only Wanna Be with You" - so entitled - reached number 4 UK, affording the Bay City Rollers' a tenth and final Top Ten hit.
It's noteworthy that the US and UK chart peaks of the Bay City Rollers' 1976 remake of "I Only Want to Be with You" exactly match the US and UK chart peaks achieved in 1964 by the Dusty Springfield original. However the Springfield original version had had a significantly stronger UK chart run holding at number 4 for 4 weeks - as opposed to the Bay City Rollers remake's one week chart peak - with the original's Top 50 tenure of 18 weeks being twice as long as the remake's. Conversely in the US the Bay City Rollers' remake had a Billboard Hot 100 tenure of 15 weeks while the Springfield original had maintained a Hot 100 presence for 10 weeks in total.[7] (Comparisons between the chart impact of singles issued in distinct time periods should be considered imprecise, the methodology behind both the UK and US chart rankings having been frequently revised.)
Chart performance[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
Chart (1976)
Peak
position
Australia[8] 8
Austrian Singles Chart 17
Belgian Singles Chart (Flanders) 14
Canadian Singles Chart 3
Dutch Singles Chart 9
German Singles Chart 9
Irish Singles Chart[9] 2
Italian Singles Chart[10] 5
New Zealand Singles Chart[11] 12
UK Singles Chart 4
US Billboard Hot 100 12
US Billboard Adult Contemporary[12] 27
US Cash Box Top 100[13] 8
Year-end charts[edit]
Chart (1976)
Rank
Australia[14] 58
Canada[15] 82
Netherlands [16] 80
New Zealand[17] 49
UK[18] 49
The Tourists version[edit]
"I Only Wanna Be with You"
Single by The Tourists
from the album Reality Effect
Released
November 1979
Genre
Pop
Label
Logo
Songwriter(s)
Mike Hawker, Ivor Raymonde
Tourists singles chronology
"The Lonliest Man in the World"
(1979) "I Only Wanna Be with You"
(1979) "So Good to Be Back Home Again"
(1980)
"The Lonliest Man in the World"
(1979) "I Only Wanna Be with You"
(1979) "So Good to Be Back Home Again"
(1980)
Background[edit]
In 1979, the song was also covered by The Tourists, a band which included Annie Lennox on vocals. This was the band's biggest hit. The song was used on a montage of stars when Thames Television went off the air in 1992.
Chart performance[edit]
Chart (1979–80)
Peak
position
Australian Singles Chart[19] 6
Canadian Singles Chart 50
Irish Singles Chart[20] 13
UK Singles Chart[21] 4
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[22] 83
Samantha Fox version[edit]
"I Only Wanna Be with You"
Single by Samantha Fox
from the album I Wanna Have Some Fun
B-side
"Confession"
Released
January 1989
Format
Vinyl, 12", 7"; CD
Recorded
PWL, The Borough, London
Genre
Pop[23]
Length
2:45
Label
Jive
Songwriter(s)
Mike Hawker and Ivor Raymonde
Producer(s)
Stock Aitken Waterman
Samantha Fox singles chronology
"I Wanna Have Some Fun"
(1988) "I Only Wanna Be with You"
(1989) "(Hurt Me, Hurt Me) But the Pants Stay On"
(1991)
"I Wanna Have Some Fun"
(1988) "I Only Wanna Be with You"
(1989) "(Hurt Me, Hurt Me) But the Pants Stay On"
(1991)
Music video
"I Only Want to Be with You" on YouTube
In 1988, Samantha Fox covered the song as "I Only Wanna Be with You" for her album I Wanna Have Some Fun. It was released as the second single in the United States and Europe from her third studio album I Wanna Have Some Fun (1988). The song was another hit for Fox, reaching number 16 in the United Kingdom and number 31 in the United States. The music video includes scenes of Fox hunting through trash cans, dancing, fireworks, and the singer in bed with her bespectacled lover.[24]
Television shows Fox performed the song on include Top of the Pops in 1989 and Viva el espectáculo on TVE1 in 1990.[25][26]
Chart performance[edit]
Chart (1989)
Peak
position
Australian ARIA Charts[27] 19
Austrian Singles Chart 19
Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart 1
Dutch Singles Chart 13
French Singles Chart 9
German Singles Chart 25
Irish Singles Chart 9
New Zealand Singles Chart 28
Swiss Singles Chart 24
UK Singles Chart 16
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 31
Canadian Singles Chart 12
Track listings[edit]
UK 7" Vinyl(FOXY X11) Jive[28]
"I Only Wanna Be With You" 2:45
"Confession" 4:40
US Maxi Single(1195-2-JDJ) Jive[29]
"I Only Wanna Be with You (Single Edit)" 2:45
"I Only Wanna Be with You (Special Single Edit)" 3:19
"I Only Wanna Be with You (Extended Mix)" 4:56
UK 12" Vinyl(FOXY T 11) Jive[30]
"I Only Wanna Be with You (Extended Mix)" 4:56
"I Only Wanna Be with You (Acapella Mix)" 3:17
"I Only Wanna Acid with You (Mix 1)" 6:20
"Confession" 4:40
Luis Miguel version[edit]
"Ahora Te Puedes Marchar"
Single by Luis Miguel
from the album Soy Como Quiero Ser
B-side
"Sunny"
Released
1987 (1987)
Format
Airplay · Promo single
Recorded
1986-1987
Record One
(Sherman Oaks, California)
Metropolis Studios
George Tobin Studios
Sunset Sound Studios
(Hollywood, California)
Genre
Latin
Length
3:15
Label
WEA Latina
Songwriter(s)
Mike Hawker · Ivor Raymonde · Luis Gómez Escolar
Producer(s)
Juan Carlos Calderón
Luis Miguel singles chronology
"Todo El Amor del Mundo"
(1986) "Ahora Te Puedes Marchar"
(1987) "No Me Puedo Escapar de Tí"
(1987)
"Todo El Amor del Mundo"
(1986) "Ahora Te Puedes Marchar"
(1987) "No Me Puedo Escapar de Tí"
(1987)
Background[edit]
Mexican singer Luis Miguel recorded a cover version of the song, titled "Ahora Te Puedes Marchar" ("Now You Can Leave") which was released as the first single from his Grammy-nominated album Soy Como Quiero Ser (1987), the first album recorded by the singer under the WEA record label. It was produced by Juan Carlos Calderón and adapted by Luis Gomez Escolar.[31] This single became very successful, peaking at number-one in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart for three non-consecutive weeks in 1987, being the first chart topper for the singer on the chart.[32] At the time, Luis Miguel was the youngest to score a number-one hit on the Hot Latin Tracks at the age of 17, ironically replacing veteran Julio Iglesias at the summit. In 2005, Luis Miguel included this song on his compilation album Grandes Éxitos.[33] This version ranked at number 28 in the Hot Latin Tracks Year-End Chart of 1988.
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Music videos[edit]
Two music videos were shot. The first one was shot with Angélica Rivera, while the second one was shot dancing in a bridge. The second one was included in Grandes Exitos Videos.
Chart performance[edit]
Chart (1987)
Peak
position
US Billboard Hot Latin Tracks 1
Preceded by
"Lo Mejor de Tu Vida" by Julio Iglesias U.S. Billboard Hot Latin Tracks number-one single
(Luis Miguel version) (first run)
August 22, 1987 Succeeded by
"Lo Mejor de Tu Vida" by Julio Iglesias
Preceded by
"Lo Mejor de Tu Vida" by Julio Iglesias U.S. Billboard Hot Latin Tracks number-one single
(Luis Miguel version) (second run)
September 12, 1987 Succeeded by
"La Bamba" by Los Lobos
Preceded by
"La Bamba" by Los Lobos U.S. Billboard Hot Latin Tracks number-one single
(Luis Miguel version) (third run)
November 7, 1987 Succeeded by
"Qué No Se Rompa la Noche" by Julio Iglesias
Other versions[edit]
1964 Les Surfs as "A Présent Tu Peux t'en Aller'" French also recorded
by Richard Anthony
Les Surfs as "E adesso te ne puoi andar" #2 (Italy)
Lill-Babs as "Jag Vill Vara Nära Dig" Swedish
Donna Lynn on her eponymous album Capitol LP 2085
Lita Torelló (es) as "Ahora Te Puedes Marchar" Spanish also recorded by
Silvana Velasco (es)
1965 Enrique Guzman on his album Éxitos internacionalesas "Solo quiero estar
contigo" Spanish also recorded by Juan Ramón (es) on his album Más corazón que nunca
1966 Les Surfs as "Ahora Te Puedes Marchar" Spanish
1967 Helena Vondráčková as "Chytila jsem na pasece motýlka" Czech
1969 Elin as "Det har jeg altid ønsket mig" Danish
Agneta Zelán as "Jag Ville Vara Nära Dig" Swedish
1975 Chelsia Chan on her debut album Dark Side Of Your Mind
Rauli 'Badding' Somerjoki on his album Sydän lämpöä täys as
"Jykevää on rakkaus" Finnish
1976 Howard Carpendale as "Ab Heute Weht Ein Neuer Wind" (German)
James Fung as "天賜良緣" Cantonese
1982 Barbara Dickson on her album Here We Go...Barbara Dickson Live on Tour
in medley with "Dancing in the Street"/ "He's a Rebel"/ "You Keep Me Hangin' On"
Nicolette Larson #53 U.S., (A/C#15)
parent album All Dressed Up & No Place to Go
1983 The Flirts on their album Flirts
Tony Hatch & His Orchestra on his album Quiet Nights
1986 Southside Johnny & The Jukes on their album At Least We Got Shoes
1989 Danny Chan on his album Yat sang ho kau
as "流浪者/ lau long tze" Cantonese
1991 Maywood on their Walking Back to Happiness album
1992 Paula Koivuniemi on her album Se kesäni mun as "Haluun
olla luonas sun" Finnish
Wenche Myhre as "Hvis Bare Jeg Får Bli Hos Deg" Norwegian
1993 Beatriz Rico (es) on her album Baila Sin Parar as "Ahora Te Puedes
Marchar" Spanish
1997 Ash covered the song for a promotional tour[34]
1998 * Twiggy & Twiggy on the soundtrack of Dead Man on Campus
Annette Klingenberg on her album Weep No More
1999 Argema (cs) on their album Milion Snů as "Žába"Czech
Elton John performed the song in concert at the Peoria (IL) Civic Center Arena after learning of Dusty Springfield's death on March 2, 1999. John introduced the song saying "Dusty, wherever you are, this one's for you, my love, with all my love."
Ville Valo with the Agents on the Agents' album Laulava Sydän as "Jykevää on rakkaus" Finnish
2001 Me First and the Gimme Gimmes on their album Blow in the Wind
2002 Vonda Shepard on her album Songs from Ally McBeal
2003 Maleewan Jemina (th) on her 2003 album Me & Moment in Time
2004 Tommy February6 on her single L・O・V・E・L・Y ～夢見るLOVELY BOY～
2005 Taiwanese female group 7 Flowers on their eponymous album
Volbeat on their 2005 debut album The Strength / The Sound / The Songs
Susan Wong on her album These Foolish Things
2007 Tina Arena on her album Songs of Love & Loss
The Shakers (Uruguayan band) as "Solo quiero estar contigo" Spanish:
bonus track on re-issue of band's 1965 album Los Shakers
2008 Shelby Lynne on her Dusty Springfield tribute album Just a Little Lovin'
2009 Jessica Andersson as "I Only Wanna Be With You" on her album Wake Up
Barbee (hu) as "Ámor nyila" Hungarian
2011 Amy Macdonald: recorded 2008 for canceled multi-artist Dusty Springfield
tribute album: track first released on album Reworked, a multi-artist fundraiser for Save the Children featuring songs used in John Lewis ad campaigns
2013 Lodovica Comello (it/es) as "I Only Want To Be With You" on her album
Universo
Uses on television[edit]
Was used in the opening for the TV series Arli$$
The Tourists' version of the song was played along with TV clips on final week of broadcasting of Thames Television in December 1992 before Carlton Television took over
The song was used in the British soap opera EastEnders when the character Sam Mitchell dug up the body of Den Watts
The song was used by TVNZ to promote TV2 changing the words to "I only want to be with 2!"
The song was also used as soundtrack in Greek Comedy TV series "Tilempora" (TV Storm) on Mega Channel in 2004.
The song was used by CBC Television to promote its programming between 1989 and 1991, while the network's slogan was "CBC and you".[35]
The song featured in a John Lewis television ad highlighting how the company had been selling electronic equipment for a substantial number of years.
The song was used in a swimwear advert for Boux Avenue in 2014. The ad featured Jamelia, who also sang the song, with the chorus changed to "I only want to be with Boux".
A television ad campaign for Dogs Trust which launched in February 2016 features Hope Russell-Winter singing "I Only Want to Be With You".
The song was also featured in an episode of "that 70's show" when Fez and Donna were having scenes where they pretended to be dating.
Me First And The Gimme Gimmes' version of the song was used in an episode of Shameless (USA)
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External links[edit]
Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Samantha Fox
Discography
Studio albums
Touch Me
Samantha Fox
I Wanna Have Some Fun
Just One Night
21st Century Fox
Angel with an Attitude
Compilation albums
Greatest Hits (1992)
Watching You, Watching Me
Greatest Hits (2009)
Remix albums
Watching You, Watching Me
Singles
"Touch Me (I Want Your Body)"
"Do Ya Do Ya (Wanna Please Me)"
"Hold On Tight"
"Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now"
"I Surrender (To the Spirit of the Night)"
"I Promise You (Get Ready)"
"True Devotion"
"Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)"
"Love House"
"I Only Wanna Be with You"
"I Wanna Have Some Fun"
"(Hurt Me, Hurt Me) But the Pants Stay On"
"Santa Maria"
"Perhaps"
"Tomorrow (Is Another Day)"
"Call Me"
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Luis Miguel singles
Soy Como Quiero Ser
"Ahora Te Puedes Marchar"
"Cuando Calienta El Sol"
"Yo Que No Vivo Sin Ti"
Busca Una Mujer
"La Incondicional"
"Fría Como el Viento"
20 Años
"Tengo Todo Excepto a Ti"
"Entrégate"
"Será Que No Me Amas"
Romance
"Inolvidable"
"No Sé Tú"
"Contigo en la Distancia"
América & En Vivo
"América, América"
Aries
"Hasta Que Me Olvides"
"Suave"
Segundo Romance
"El Día Que Me Quieras"
"La Media Vuelta"
Nada Es Igual...
"Dame"
"Cómo Es Posible Que a Mi Lado"
Romances
"Por Debajo de la Mesa"
"Sabor a Mí"
"Bésame Mucho"
Amarte Es un Placer
"Sol, Arena y Mar"
"O Tú o Ninguna"
"Dormir Contigo"
"Amarte Es un Placer"
Mis Romances
"Amor, Amor, Amor"
Navidades
"Santa Claus Llegó a La Ciudad"
"Mi Humilde Oración"
Cómplices
"Si Tú Te Atreves"
"Te Desean"
Luis Miguel
"Labios de Miel"
As featured artist
"Me Gustas Tal Como Eres"
Other songs
"Sueña"
Dèja Vu
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The Tourists
Peet Coombes
David A. Stewart
Annie Lennox
Eddie Chin
Jim Toomey
Studio albums
The Tourists (1979)
Reality Effect (1979)
Luminous Basement (1980)
Songs
"I Only Want to Be with You"
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Nicolette Larson
Studio albums
Nicolette (1978)
In the Nick of Time (1979)
Shadows of Love (1988)
Singles
"Lotta Love"
"I Only Want to Be with You"
"Building Bridges"
"That's How You Know When Love's Right"
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This article is about the public holiday in Canada. For the holiday in parts of Scotland, see Victoria Day (Scotland). For other uses, see Victoria Day (disambiguation).
Victoria Day
Fête de la Reine
A portrait in Ottawa City Hall of Queen Victoria, first sovereign of a confederated Canada
Official name
Victoria Day
French: Fête de la Reine
Also called
May Long Weekend, May Long, May Two-Four, May Run
Observed by
Canadians
Type
Historical, cultural, nationalist
Celebrations
Fireworks, parades
Date
Last Monday preceding May 25
2016 date
May 23, 2016
2017 date
May 22, 2017
2018 date
May 21, 2018
2019 date
May 20, 2019
Frequency
annual
Related to
Birthday of Queen Victoria
Victoria Day (French: Fête de la Reine, or "Celebration of the Queen") is a federal Canadian public holiday celebrated on the last Monday preceding May 25, in honour of Queen Victoria's birthday. As such, it is the Monday between the 18th to the 24th inclusive, and thus is always the penultimate Monday of May. The date is simultaneously that on which the current Canadian sovereign's official birthday is recognized.[1] It is sometimes informally considered the beginning of the summer season in Canada.
The holiday has been observed in Canada since at least 1845, originally falling on Victoria's actual birthday (24 May 1819). It continues to be celebrated in various fashions across the country; the holiday has always been a distinctly Canadian observance.[2][3] Victoria Day is a federal statutory holiday, as well as a holiday in six of Canada's ten provinces and all three of its territories. In Quebec, before 2003, the Monday preceding 25 May of each year was unofficially the Fête de Dollard, a commemoration of Adam Dollard des Ormeaux initiated in the 1920s to coincide with Victoria Day. In 2003, provincial legislation officially created National Patriots' Day on the same date.
Contents
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1 History
2 Provincial and territorial legislation
3 Practice
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
History[edit]
The birthday of Queen Victoria was a day for celebration in Canada long before Confederation, with the first legislation regarding the event being in 1845 passed by the parliament of the Province of Canada to officially recognize May 24 as the Queen's birthday.[4][2][3] It was noted that on that date in 1854, the 35th birthday of Queen Victoria, some 5,000 residents of Canada West gathered in front of Government House (near present-day King and Simcoe Streets in Toronto) to "give cheers to their queen".[5] An example of a typical 19th century celebration of the Queen's birthday took place on May 24, 1866, in Omemee, also in Canada West: the town mounted a day-long fête to mark the occasion, including a gun salute at midnight, pre-dawn serenades, picnics, athletic competitions, a display of illuminations, and a torch-light procession;[6] such events were common around the colony and,[2] by the 1890s, the day had become a "patriotic holiday".[3]
Victoria Day, 1854; crowds gather outside Government House in Toronto, Canada West (now Ontario)
Following the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, May 24 was made by law to be known as Victoria Day,[2][4] a date to remember the late queen, who was deemed the "Mother of Confederation",[7] and, in 1904, the same date was by imperial decree made Empire Day throughout the British Empire.[2] Over the ensuing decades, the official date in Canada of the reigning sovereign's birthday changed through various royal proclamations until the haphazard format was abandoned in 1952. That year, both Empire Day and Victoria Day were, by order-in-council and statutory amendment, respectively, moved to the Monday before May 25 and the monarch's official birthday in Canada was by regular viceregal proclamations made to fall on this same date every year between 1953 and January 31, 1957,[4][8] when the link was made permanent by royal proclamation.[4][9] The following year, Empire Day was renamed Commonwealth Day and in 1977 it was moved to the second Monday in March, leaving the Monday before May 25 only as both Victoria Day and the Queen's Birthday.
Victoria Day celebrations were marred by tragedy twice: In 1881, the passenger ferry Victoria overturned in the Thames River, near London, Ontario. The boat departed in the evening with 600 to 800 people on board—three times the allowable passenger capacity—and capsized part way across the river, drowning some 182 individuals, including a large number of children who had been with their families for Victoria Day picnics at Springbank Park. The event came to be known as the Victoria Day disaster.[10] Then, on May 26, 1896, the Point Ellice Bridge disaster occurred in Victoria, British Columbia, when a bridge collapsed under the weight of a streetcar overloaded with passengers on their way to attend Victoria Day celebrations.[11]
In 2013, a group of prominent Canadian actors, authors, and politicians sent a petition to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, requesting that the holiday be renamed Victoria and First Peoples Day.[12][13]
Provincial and territorial legislation[edit]
Victoria Day 2010 fireworks display from Ontario Place, Toronto
Most workplaces in Canada are regulated by the provincial or territorial government. Therefore, although Victoria Day is a statutory holiday for federal purposes, whether an employee is entitled to a paid day off generally depends on the province or territory of residence (with the exception of employees in federally regulated workplaces such as banks).
The status of Victoria Day in each of the provinces and territories is as follows: It is a general holiday in Alberta,[14] Manitoba,[15] the Northwest Territories,[16] and Yukon[17] and is a statutory holiday in British Columbia,[18] Ontario,[19] and Saskatchewan.[20] Victoria Day is not a paid public holiday in Newfoundland and Labrador,[21] but is a government holiday;[22] Nova Scotia, where it is also not a designated retail closing day, but is considered a "non-statutory holiday";[23] and Prince Edward Island,[24] although provincial legislation defines "holiday" to include Victoria Day.[25]
In Nunavut[26] and New Brunswick,[27] the date is set as a general holiday (for New Brunswick, a prescribed day of rest on which retail businesses must be closed[28]) to mark the reigning sovereign's official birthday. In Quebec, the province's legislative assembly passed legislation that dedicated National Patriots' Day, commemorating the patriotes of the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837, to be celebrated on the Monday preceding May 25. This replaced the Fête de Dollard, which had been celebrated by Quebecers on Victoria Day since the 1960s and which commemorated Adam Dollard des Ormeaux.
Practice[edit]
Canada is the only country that commemorates Queen Victoria with an official holiday.[29] Federal government protocol dictates that, on Victoria Day, the Royal Union Flag is to be flown from sunrise to sunset at all federal government buildings—including airports, military bases, and other Crown owned property across the country—where physical arrangements allow (i.e. where a second flag pole exists, as the Royal Union Flag can never displace the national flag).[4]
Several cities hold a parade on the holiday, with the most prominent being that which has taken place since 1898 in the monarch's namesake city of Victoria, British Columbia.[30][31] In nearby New Westminster, the Victoria Day weekend is distinguished by the Hyack Anvil Battery Salute, a tradition created during colonial times as a surrogate for a 21-gun salute: Gunpowder is placed between two anvils, the top one upturned, and the charge is ignited, hurling the upper anvil into the air. Other celebrations include an evening fireworks show, such as that held at Ashbridge's Bay Beach in the east end of Toronto, and at Ontario Place, in the same city.
Turkish Canadians march in the 2007 Victoria Day parade in Victoria, British Columbia
Across the country, Victoria Day serves as the unofficial marker of the end of the winter social season, and thus the beginning of the summer social calendar.[2][3][32] Banff, Alberta's Sunshine Village ends its lengthy ski season on Victoria Day and,[33] likewise, it is during this long weekend that many summer businesses—such as parks, outdoor restaurants, bicycle rentals, city tour operators, etc.—will open. Victoria Day is also a mark of the beginning of the cottage season, when cottage owners may reverse the winterization of their property.[34][35] Gardeners in Canada will similarly regard Victoria Day as the beginning of spring,[35] as it falls at a time when one can be fairly certain that frost will not return until the next autumn. There is also a change in fashion: lighter-coloured summer clothing was traditionally worn from Victoria Day through until Labour Day.[36]
The holiday is colloquially known in parts of Canada as May Two-Four;[37][38][39][40][41] a double entendre that refers both to the date around which the holiday falls (May 24) and the Canadian slang for a case of twenty-four beers (a "two-four"), a drink popular during the long weekend.[2] The holiday weekend may also be known as May Long or May Run,[40][42][43] and the term Firecracker Day was also employed in Ontario.[44]
A traditional, short song about Victoria Day went as follows: "The twenty-fourth of May / Is the Queen's birthday; / If they don't give us a holiday / We'll all run away!"[3] The holiday is referenced in the song "Lakeside Park" by Canadian rock band Rush, from their 1975 album Caress of Steel. The song features the line, "everyone would gather on the 24th of May, sitting in the sand to watch the fireworks display".
See also[edit]
Public holidays in Canada
Commonwealth Day
Monarchism in Canada
Queen's Official Birthday
Bermuda Day
References[edit]
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