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Vancouver Pride Parade 2012: Photos & Tweets

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An estimated 600,000 people are expected to line the streets in downtown Vancouver today for the Vancouver Pride Parade celebrating diversity, culture, community, and family. Music, dancing, colourful floats, motorcycles, trucks, bicycles, stilt-walkers, children, parents, dogs, and a multitude of mascots filled the streets. The following photos and updates have been pulled from Twitter as […]

Vancouver Pride Parade 2012

Comments 1 by Rebecca Bollwitt

The Vancouver Pride Parade is set to welcome over half a million people downtown this Sunday, starting at 12:00pm. One of the biggest events of the year in BC, the Pride Parade and Pride Week draw revellers from around the globe to this inclusive festival. What Vancouver Pride Parade When Sunday, August 5, 2012 starting […]

CelticFest Vancouver 2012

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CelticFest Vancouver is one of the city’s most vibrant annual festivals. It includes musical mash-ups and whisky tastings to free family events and the St. Patrick’s Day Parade to round out the weekend March 10th to 18th. Celts on The Creek Saturday, March 10, 2012 From 12:30pm to 5:30pm The Plaza at The Village on […]

Rogers Santa Claus Parade 2011

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The 8th annual Rogers Santa Claus Parade will once again brighten up the streets of downtown Vancouver on December 4, 2011 but with a slightly different route this year. Photo credit: kiwi_cam on Flickr – from the Miss604 Flickr Pool According to a press release that I received from the organizers, the Vancouver Art Gallery […]

Vancouver Pride Parade 2011 Photos

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The Pride Parade yesterday was filled with sunshine, smiles, dancing, laughter, and joy as hundreds of floats coasted through downtown to a welcoming crowd. Photo credit: John Bollwitt on Flickr I spent the duration of the parade in the basket of the London Drugs float with my friend Wendy Hartley. At the end of the […]