After two years of cancellation or virtual celebration, the direct Canada Day celebration is back.
Thousands of people celebrate the Metropolitan Canada Day I'm heading to. To celebrate the country's 155th birthday.
The COVID-19 pandemic will host Canada Day directly since 2019 for most people after the event is canceled in 2020 and 2021.
In Vancouver, many people wore red and white, waving maple leaf flags, and flocked to the downtown waterfront near Canada Place.
RenamedCanada Together, Maskean, Squamish, Tureil-Wautus This celebration, planned with indigenous peoples, highlights the theme of reconciliation and constitutes Canada. Society, the organizer, said it provides an opportunity to learn about indigenous peoples and other cultures.
Schedule: Live musical performances, exhibits, family entertainers and activities, food trucks.
This year there is no night fireworks show in Burrard Inlet canceled due to security costs.
Jolie Rochard-Choreajian's family is in a crowd of hundreds on the kids stage at Jack Poole Plaza.
"This is great," said Rochard-Choreajian, a member of the performing group MomBop, whose parents emigrated from Trinidad and Tobago in 1971. What a mess, it's insane. "
At Sally, the organizers collaborated with the local First Nations at the Bill Reid Millennium AmphitheaterCanada Day. We also held a partyin Cloverdale. Headlined by Rockbad Archels of Canada, the focus will be on music performances scheduled throughout the day.
"It's really great to be surrounded by people and celebrate Canada again," said Ken Adams, watching his two-year-old daughter roam the grass with her friends. "She is a pandemic baby. This is the first time she has come here."
The family emphasized wearing red and white clothes and put the Canadian flag on the stroller. He said it was an effort to "regain" the flag after the maple leaves were prominently used during the protests of the truck convoy this summer.
"This flag has a different meaning than we do, so I'd like to show it proudly."
Richmond is the first time since a pandemic. The 75th Salmon Festival was held in the historic village of Steveston, a face-to-face celebration.
Instead of the usual parade down Moncton Street, this year's festival will host a number of "festival zones" throughout the village. Live music, demonstrations and exhibitions are scheduled for the day from Garry Point Park to the Britannia Shipyard National Historic Site.
Read more: From Abbotsford to Whistler, there are 22 Canadian Day events around the Metro Vancouver.
'Promise of a better life'
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tells Canadians in the official message of Canada Day Re-committing to national values such as respect, hope and kindness.
The Prime Minister said that national holidays are an opportunity to commit to the values represented by maple leaves, adding that the flag is not just a symbol.
"It's also a promise, a promise of opportunity, a promise of security for those who escape violence and war, and a promise of a better life," he said.
Convoy protesters against COVID-19 restrictions, along with people celebrating the holidays — Frequently crouching Canadian flags — converging on Friday in Ottawa.
In a message, Canada, with a population of 38 million, is strong because of its diversity, from indigenous peoples to only a few here. I am. several weeks.
In a clear reference to the treatment of indigenous peoples, including housing schools, the Prime Minister talks about Canada's "historical mistakes" and cannot change history, but to build a better future. He said he could work.
Ottawa's "freedom" protesters
Previous "freedom" Protesters Mixing with downtown families, tourists and others celebrating Canada Day, hundreds of people gathered on Friday afternoon to complain countless in the heart of the city that occupied a few months ago. rice field.
Declared by one of the leaders of the "Patriots are back, baby" march.
In the Canadian flag, Airhorn, bellows of "Freedom" and "Liberte", starting on Wellington Street in front of the Capitol, a few blocks long procession passed through Centertown.
March leaders blame Justin Trudeau for the release of imprisoned "free convoy" protest leaders Pat King and Tamara Lich, who "line up" Some spectators on the street greeted them when they declared. He cheered and shook his head with others, turned it over, and stared at him in a confused manner.
The first "clash" between authorities and "freedom" protesters attempted to issue tickets to protesters who set up a table on Wellington Street for the city ordinance authorities to sell free goods. It occurred in the middle of the afternoon.
The group of "free convoy" supporters, who still had only a few dozen by noon, grew as the day went on. They clashed with a photographer trying to take a picture, chanting "freedom" and portraying someone "awakening Canada" with chalk on the street.
Back to BC
When we meet to celebrate Canada Day, we can look back at this place we call home, both the past and the future. It is important.
To recognize everything we have to thank everyone and do together to build a better Canada that works for everyone. pic. twitter. com / wlf25alkR6
— John Horgan (@jjhorgan)July 1, 2022
This year's Canada Day event is back, but it's also pointing in a new direction. At Canada Place, home to the city's largest celebration, the festival is named "Canada Together." pic. twitter. com / doBe0hWpVd
— Kennedystewart (@kennedystewart)July 1, 2022
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— Using files from GordMcIntyre, Canadian Press, and Postmedia News
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