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Annual Events: Illuminaries Lantern Festival - Cancelled for 2008
Apr14One of the most magical events on the Vancouver calendar, the Illuminaries Lantern Festival, sees thousands of Vancouverites descend upon Trout Lake at dusk, for an evening of wonder, beauty and community. Staged mid-summer by the non-profit Public Dreams Society, the lantern procession requires the public to bring their own hand-made paper lanterns, lit from within by single candles. Some are ...
Annual Events - Gay Pride Weekend - Aug 3, 2008
Apr14The Vancouver Pride Society celebrates the city's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community, and those that love them the last weekend of every July. With performances, seminars, educational events, demonstrations and of course, a gigantic parade, Vancouver Pride Weekend draws hundreds into the city every year, particularly to the gay-friendly areas of Davie Village (In the West End) a...
Annual Events Pacfic National Exhibition/Playland
Apr14For those visitors to Vancouver for whom mere natural beauty isn't thrill enough, we present Playland at the PNE, Canada's oldest amusement grounds, located on the border on Burnaby and Vancouver in the Hasting-Sunrise area. Hastings-Sunrise, one of Vancouver's oldest neighbourhoods, was originally intended by developers in the mid-1800's to be a resort town, for vacationers from New Westmin...
Annual Events- HSBC Celebration of Light, Weds. & Sats. July 23- Aug 2
Apr11One of the largest annual events in the city, this annual fireworks competition is staged over the two weeks ending July and beginning August. Featuring four nights of dazzling displays from the world's best fireworks companies,the Celebration of Light draws over half a million locals and tourists to beaches, balconies, and other lookouts each year. As the fireworks are launched from a barge an...
