The City of Brent was founded in 1898 but was forever changed on May 27, 1973. A site next to the current City Hall building was dedicated to the people of Brent whose lives were forever changed by a devastating tornado on May 27, 1973.
The status of Victoria Day in each of the provinces and territories is as follows: It is a general holiday in Alberta, Manitoba, the Northwest Territories, and Yukon and is a statutory holiday in British Columbia, Ontario, and Saskatchewan.
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 FÃªte de Dollard, a commemoration initiated in the 1920s to coincide with Victoria Day.