Vancouver’s Canada Day fireworks scrapped for good – BC | 24CA News
Revelers headed to Canada Place to have fun Canada Day received’t be taking in a fireworks show this yr — or any yr going ahead.
The Port of Vancouver, which co-hosts town’s Canada Day pageant with the federal authorities, confirmed {that a} choice to not produce the show in 2022 is everlasting.
It’s been practically 4 years since a pyrotechnic show lit up Coal Harbour to mark trendy Canada’s founding.
Festivities have been cancelled in 2020 and 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic as a consequence of restrictions on public gatherings.
While the Canada Day occasion returned in 2022, Port of Vancouver spokesperson Alex Munro stated the group determined to cancel the show “primarily due to rising costs.”
The 2023 occasion will focus extra on daytime occasions and can proceed with a brand new theme launched in 2022 that Munro described as a “huge success,” drawing about 150,000 folks.
“We also decided last year to take our July 1 event at Canada Place in a new direction, following national conversations about how to best celebrate Canada Day in light of the tragic findings at residential schools,” Munro stated.
“The event was re-named Canada Together and is planned collaboratively with representatives from the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations under the theme of ‘weaving together the fabric of a nation.’”
An occasions lineup for the 2023 festivities has but to be launched.
Locals searching for a fireworks expertise will nonetheless be capable of head to Surrey, the place a Canada Day pageant headlined by Broken Social Scene and Crown Lands is scheduled for the Bill Reid Millennium Amphitheatre.
The fireworks at that occasion kick off at 10:15 p.m. with a show scheduled for 10:15 p.m. July 1.
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