Victoria Day (the 24th) was dedicated to the re-opening of Fort York, originally erected in the "virgin woods hereabouts in 1793".
It was noted in promotional materials that: Almost wholly Anglo-Celtic, home-owners rooted in the soil of their city, the people of Toronto, in whom all the British emotions are centred, are noted for their ability to arrange spectacles of gorgeous colour and sweeping movement--the traditional arts of their Motherland.