Canada Day 2008

Make sure to come to (Un)Pavilion Park for a Canada Day celebration, sponsored by the Downtown Squamish Business Improvement Association. The day starts at 10:30 am with a Legion Parade from the Howe Sound Inn to the Municipal War Memorial. At 11 am there will be a flag-raising ceremony followed by Canada Day birthday cake. Stick around to watch the dog agility demonstration in Stan Clarke Park and then cross the road at noon to take part in the Family Fun Carnival at (Un)Pavilion Park.

For $5 kids young and old will be able to try the March of the Penguins game, Hockey Shoot, Golf Challenge, Laser Toss, Jurassic Toss, Down the Clown, Cow Milker, and the Kiddie Hi-Striker. Morphy the Caterpillar, from Par-T-Perfect will watch over the scene and provide a climbing, sliding break from the games.
Kelly Kerr of Paradise Valley Llama Trekking will be back again this year with Llama rides for children.

What could be more Canadian than playing hockey? That’s why, courtesy of Brennan Park Recreation Centre, there will be a pick up street hockey game going on from noon to 4 pm. Bring your own stick or borrow one, all players are welcome.

The music starts at 4:30 pm with a special family show by Sam’s Rot’n Pot’n Pan Band, a Vancouver-based 3 piece group that perform original, pirate-laced minstrel-flavoured kid-centric music. In other words, interactive, silly and fun! Check out the samples on their site www.rotnpotn.com and you’ll know why you won’t want to miss this show!

The music heats up from there with 8 Seconds to Sunrise, a local youth band that has been playing to happy audiences at Gelato’s Open Mike nights.
From there, the Shifters rock us back to the 50s and 60s, singing songs from favourites like the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Buddy Holly.
The final act for the evening is Rich Hope and His Evildoers. For those who caught them at Wild at Art, you’ll know they’re an insanely energetic blues-rock band with Jaggeresque swagger & southern twang. A reviewer describes their latest album as “foot stompin’ free-for-alls and country laments (that) meet right where Bob Dylan, Mississippi Fred MacDowell, R.L. Burnside and Hank Williams sit down together to eat BBQ and drink whiskey.”

Pretty hard to top that but if anything can it is the impressive explosions and sparks of a great fireworks show. Kris Keyes, our pyrotechnician extraordinaire is busy choreographing a new display this year that will finish your Canada Day with a very satisfying bang.

Food vendors will be on-site throughout the day and the beer garden starts at 5 pm.