Descrease article font dimension
Enhance article font dimension
Revelers headed to Canada Place to have a good time Canada Day received’t be taking in a fireworks show this yr — or any yr going ahead.
The Port of Vancouver, which co-hosts the town’s Canada Day competition with the federal authorities, confirmed {that a} resolution to not produce the show in 2022 is everlasting.
It’s been almost 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 because of restrictions on public gatherings.
Whereas the Canada Day occasion returned in 2022, Port of Vancouver spokesperson Alex Munro mentioned the group determined to cancel the show “primarily because of rising prices.”
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 “enormous success,” drawing about 150,000 folks.
“We additionally determined final yr to take our July 1 occasion at Canada Place in a brand new route, following nationwide conversations about how one can greatest have a good time Canada Day in gentle of the tragic findings at residential colleges,” Munro mentioned.
Trending Now
Procuring Shein? What to know concerning the fast-fashion model’s so-called ‘darkish sides’
Sick of eradicating laptops, liquids at airports? Some travellers can quickly skip
“The occasion was re-named Canada Collectively and is deliberate collaboratively with representatives from the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations underneath the theme of ‘weaving collectively the material of a nation.’”
An occasions lineup for the 2023 festivities has but to be launched.
Locals searching for a fireworks expertise will nonetheless have the ability to head to Surrey, the place a Canada Day competition headlined by Damaged Social Scene and Crown Lands is scheduled for the Invoice 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.
© 2023 International Information, a division of Corus Leisure Inc.
