We are a bit early in our celebration, but Happy Canada Day from BCXS.com! Whether you spend Canada Day at the events in Surrey or Vancouver or your own backyard beside the pool with some ice-cold refreshments (like us!) or somewhere else, have a good one… eh.

Start your Canada Day with the scenic 10k HBC Run for Canada, beginning minutes away from Canada Place. Registration starts at 6:30am and the run starts at 8am.

With four indoor and outdoor entertainment stages and all Canadian bands (including one of our favorites 54-40), all day long, it’s bound to be an entertaining day.

This year’s high impact program includes aerial feats by our own Canadian Forces, jaw dropping tricks by West Coast Acrobatics and gravity defying stunts by the extreme Ski & Snowboard Show. Showcasing incredible musical entertainment are Canada’s own 54-40, Destino Tenors, BC’s Karen Lee Batton, Dal Richards, Kinship and more.

Fireworks start at 10:30pm and is a perfect way to end daytime Canada Day celebrations at Canada Place, in West Vancouver and North Vancouver and throughout the surrounding communities.

Granville Island also has Canada Day celebrations going on. They’ll have a parade, various activities and lots and lots of delicious food.

Speaking of parades, the North Shore Canada Day Parade is huge. The event begins with breakfast being served at 8:00am on Grand Boulevard Park at 14th Street with proceeds going to a local charity. The parade begins at 10:00 at 13th Street & Grand Boulevard and proceeds down 13th Street to Lonsdale, turning north on Lonsdale. This is the best viewing area as the reviewing stand is set up at 14th Street & Lonsdale. At 17th Street the parade again heads west where it will end at Mahon Park. There are more Canada Day celebrations in North Vancouver at Waterfront Park.

West Vancouver is also running a full gauntlet of Canada Day activities at Ambleside Park.

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Surrey Canada Day has grown to become the largest Canada Day event in Western Canada with attendance in 2007 reaching 90,000 people garnering near legendary status as one of the biggest outdoor shows ever staged in BC.

Surrey’s Canada Day will take place Tuesday July 1st at the Cloverdale Millennium Amphitheatre, located at 176 Street & 64th Avenue.  The concerts are free to the public, with gates opening at 11 am and the fireworks show slated for 11 pm.

The main stage will feature Loverboy, The Payola$, Five Alarm Funk, Wil, Elise Estrada, Rymes with Orange, Tracey Chamberlain and many more. The concert will be followed by the Fruiticana Fireworks Spectacular.

Special attractions include Shooting Star Amusement Rides featuring the Gravitron and the Zipper, plus a full range of family-oriented talent for the younger crowd, interactive games and bouncy castles for the kids.

Canada Day in Surrey

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