June 24 weekend is a right piss-up in Quebec. Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day has been celebrated in the province ever since settlers got off the boat near Charlesbourg. Colonists brought the tradition of toasting the saint’s day from France and it stuck. It’s a time when everybody lets their hair down and has fun: get drunk, smoke dope, dance in the streets, p…
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