Oh, that's funny, Canadians celebrating the big national holiday by heading for the U.S. to shop! Are most stores in Canada closed on Victoria/Patriots Day, and since people are off work they celebrate with running over for a shopping trip? I imagine Port Huron cashed in big time!

Windsor, Ontario is much closer to me, about 45 miles. But I didn't hear about any Canadian Appreciation Weekend events or sales going on around Detroit.

Patriots Day is a holiday in Massachusetts and Maine here, in April. I don't know what patriots it's in celebration of. In Massachusetts it's the date for the Boston Marathon.

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