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Canada Day parade returns to North Vancouver, with a twist
LIZ MENDES
Contributing writer
If you can’t bring the parade to the people, at least you can bring the people to the parade.
Yes, it’s time to warm up your bagpipes and get your batons twirling, as the Canada Day parade is coming back to North Vancouver. Sort of.
Following a six-year absence, the beloved tradition is coming back to the Central Lonsdale area, with a twist. A group of volunteer organizers were hoping to bring a full-fledged parade back this year, but due a variety of reasons, including stretched police resources due to the FIFA World Cup, they’ll be hosting a “stationary” parade at Civic Plaza
Presented by the volunteer-run Celebrate North Vancouver Society with support from the City of North Vancouver, the event will transform the
plaza into a Canadian cultural community celebration that includes bands, dancers, a
vintage car show, face painting, family activities and more.
Many of the organizers
involved in reviving the event previously participated in North Vancouver’s Canada Day parades with floats, vintage cars, and community groups, said Jeremy Cato, chair of the Celebrate North Vancouver Society. The volunteers were determined to not let the tradition disappear permanently after the pandemic.
“A lot of our volunteers absolutely adore the parade,” said Cato. “They were in it, they had the floats, they drove their old cars, their old fire engines and they really wanted to keep the momentum going this year.”
Reviving this celebration was no easy task. The Celebrate North Vancouver Society started organizing the event in 2025.
“We really wanted to make a statement about what regular folks can do when they work together,” Cato said.
They’re aiming to throw a wholesome and lively
celebration with a mix of live entertainment, community activities and family attractions that will captivate everyone passing by
“There’s lots to see and do there and it’s all in a pretty tight space, so it’s going to be pretty exciting,” said Cato.
Organizers are hoping this year’s stationary parade is the first step in restoring a full Canada Day Parade along Lonsdale Avenue in 2027.
The parade and festivities will happen July 1 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Civic Plaza, 126 14th Street West, North Vancouver Visit the event website at northvancanada.ca for more information about the parade or to volunteer to help with the festivities.
Liz Mendes is a student intern reporting for the North Shore News. She can be reached at lizmendes2021@gmail.com.
Jeremy Cato, Guy Heywood and Brian Wilson are part of the organizing committee for the ‘stationary’ Canada Day parade to be held at the North Vancouver Civic Plaza July 1 from 10 a.m to 2 p.m. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN
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Shipyards July 1 celebration running alongside World Cup party
ABBY LUCIANO aluciano@nsnews.com Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada Day festivities are once again hitting North Vancouver’s waterfront.
The Rotary Club of Lions Gate is inviting the public to enjoy a day full of family-friendly fun from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 1 with live music, artists, kids activities and community stalls.
“We’re excited,” said Nick Bellamy of Rotary Club of Lions Gate. “Routinely we see 30,000 people that typically come to this area, so it’s quite a significant event.”
Bellamy said the Canada Day event has been running strong for roughly 35 years. With this year coinciding with Canada Soccer House at the Shipyards for the FIFA World Cup, it’ll look a little different.
Instead of Canada Day festivities taking shape across the Shipyards, it’ll take place near the Polygon Gallery, Cates Dock and at the foot of Lonsdale
Other than the location, the Canada Day event will still remain the same. The JP Fell Pipe Band will kick off the event. Two stages are dedicated for entertainment, Bellemy
said, with performances from soul/R&B singer-songwriter Hayley Wallis, Deep Cove’s Melanie Dekker (who will also be host of the event), Tiller’s Folly and more.
Alongside musical entertainment, attendees can expect to see family-friendly games, activities and entertainment throughout the day, including balloon
artists, a pop-up featuring youth artists and community stalls highlighting non-profits that help the community.
There may even be a visit from the Royal Canadian Navy, Bellamy said.
Food trucks and refreshments will be on site. If you’re looking for a beer or vodka soda, alcoholic beverages are available steps away inside Canada Soccer House.
Bellamy expects high traffic with the World Cup watch party nearby and the Navy potentially making an appearance.
“It’s going to be the place to be on Canada Day on the North Shore,” he said. “It’s about making sure that the community has a place to come out and celebrate with everyone.”
Canada Day at the Shipyards
When: July 1, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: 125 Victory Ship Way, North Vancouver
Cost: Free. No registration required Abby Luciano is the Indigenous and civic affairs reporter for the North Shore News. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative.
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North Vancouver RCMP Staff Sgt. Doug Trousdell salutes for the national anthems at Canada Soccer House during a Canada versus Bosnia and Herzegovina World Cup game June 12. Canada Soccer House festivities will be running alongside Canada Day celebrations at the North Vancouver Shipyards July 1. BRENT RICHTER / NSN
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West Van adding soccer fun to Canada Day celebrations
ABBY LUCIANO aluciano@nsnews.com
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
West Vancouver’s John Lawson Park will be bursting with national pride July 1 for a Canada Day celebration with a football twist.
This year’s District of West Vancouver Canada Day celebration will include a few soccer-themed kids activities to align with the World Cup in town, including crafts and a kicking challenge. The rest of the West Vancouver celebration will look similar to previous years, with the added soccer touch.
The event will kick off at 4 p.m with the “Kids’ Zone,” with official remarks half an hour later from Mayor Mark Sager, MP for West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country Patrick Weiler, and West VancouverCapilano MLA Lynne Block.
Shortly after, attendees can see musical performances from Eagle Song Dancers from the Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation), the West Vancouver Youth Band and hear iconic Canadian music from the 1980s, ‘90s and 2000s by sixpiece dance band Dr. Strangelove from 5:30 p.m. to the event’s end at 9 p.m
While there are no food trucks this year due to the World Cup, there will still be tasty snacks and treats for people to enjoy like ice cream from Dolce Amore and Kiwanis serving up cotton candy and popcorn.
Christie Rosta, cultural services manager for the district, encourages people to bring a picnic or visit one of the local restaurants before heading down to the park for the July 1 celebration.
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park has been kicking for roughly 14 years, and Rosta said she is always excited to see people come together for Canada Day
“It will be an amazing day for the community to come together to celebrate Team Canada, Canadian pride, and the diversity that makes Canada the special place that it is,” Rosta said in a district statement. “What better time to celebrate being Canadian?”
West Vancouver’s Canada Day celebration
When: Wednesday, July 1, 4-9 p.m.
Where: John Lawson Park (17th Street, West Vancouver)
Cost: Free
Abby Luciano is the Indigenous and civic affairs reporter for the North Shore News. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative
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West Vancouver’s Canada Day celebrations, with added football fun, will take place at John Lawson Park July 1. DISTRICT OF WEST VANCOUVER
National team ignites country with first ever World Cup win
ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com
In the end, it was such a dominant performance that one marvelled it had never happened before.
History was made for Canada’s men’s national soccer team last week, right here in Vancouver, with the team earning its first-ever FIFA World Cup victory, 6-0 over Qatar Yes, that’s no typo Six goals.
“No Canadian will forget this day,” said Canada head coach Jesse Marsch after the match. “It was an important moment for the sport and the country.”
The opener came 16 minutes in, with Alistair Johnston whipping in a great cross that was blasted on net by Jonathan David, leading to a rebound tap-in for Cyle Larin. It was the second goal of the tournament for a player motivated by not being in the starting lineup for Game 1.
Relentless Canadian pressure was rewarded again in the 29th minute with David firing home a world-class volley to make it 2-0. Just minutes later the game shifted even more in Canada’s favour with Taj Buchanan taken down on a breakaway just outside the box, earning Qatar’s Homam Ahmed a straight red card.
The first half romp was topped off in injury time by David, who gave the ball a flying boot on the goal line to tap in his
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second of the game and send the crowd into a frenzy
The one sad note for Canada came early in the second half with a horrific broken leg for midfielder Ismaël Koné that sent waves of shock and fury through the team and stadium and earned a second straight red for Qatar, this time to Assim Madibo. It’s a devastating blow for the team and a player who was in top form in Canada’s first two games.
“It happened right in front of the bench,” said Marsch “We could all hear it.”
Once the action resumed the scoring did too, with Nathan Saliba, who came on for Koné, cracking a stellar free kick off the post and in. Saliba immediately ran to the sidelines and grabbed a Koné shirt for the celebration. “Do it for Koné” will no doubt be a rallying cry for the team the rest of the way.
“Ismaël is a big part of the heart of our team,” said Marsch. “You saw that he was waving to the crowd, almost making everyone else feel at ease with the fact that he’s injured. That’s an incredible statement about Ismaël as a person…. We had to find a way to stay focused. We knew that Ismaël wanted us to finish the job.”
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Jonathan David celebrates one of his three goals in a 6-0 FIFA World Cup win for Canada over Qatar in Vancouver June 18. @FWC26VANCOUVER
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And finish the job they did. The fifth goal came off the boot of substitute Jacob Shaffelburg, who fired a shot from the left side that bounced off a defender on the way into the net for an own goal.
The sixth was another banger for David, finishing off a World Cup hat trick
The wildness of the day, the goals and the injury only adds to the enormity of the moment – Canada has never done this before.
There have been some moral victories for the team at the FIFA World Cup over the years. Their first-ever World Cup game was in 1986 against a vaunted French side featuring the great Michel Platini and teammates Jean Tigana, Luis Fernández, Alain Giresse, the four corners of the famed Le Carré Magique (magic square) midfield. Canada held them to just one goal. But Canada lost.
Then the team spent the next 36 years trying and failing to get back to the World Cup, finally reaching the world’s top stage in 2022. In that tournament Canada again opened with a critically acclaimed
loss, dominating Belgium for much of the opening match but failing to score in another 1-0 defeat
And now in 2026, as a host nation, Canada again opened with a good showing but failed to secure a win, drawing 1-1 against Bosnia and Herzegovina last Friday in Toronto.
Seven games, several moral victories, no actual victories Until now
Vancouver was buzzing on game day, chants of Go Canada Go ringing out on the SeaBus headed downtown hours before the match. Under enthusiastic blue skies, Canadian supporters paraded through the streets to the stadium, packing BC Place with red, white and noise.
You could feel the eyes of fans across the country focused on BC Place, with watch parties from the raucous North Vancouver Shipyards to the East Coast and Far North. This was the biggest soccer game in Canada’s history, a fact that was made clear after the game as the Canadian players and coaches, following a little skirmish with some of the Qatar contingent over the Koné incident, circled the field to the roars of the sellout crowd.
This wasn’t a moral victory. This was
a crushing victory.
And moving from moral victories to actual victories comes with other perks as well, as Canada now is set up for a showdown against Switzerland today, also in Vancouver, with a win or a tie clinching top spot in the group and a berth in the round of 32.
Even with a loss against Switzerland, Canada now is in great shape to advance past the opening round of the tournament for the first time in team history thanks to the win and the huge goal differential that came with it.
It was a day of firsts here in Vancouver Team Canada is now hoping it can add a second, and a third, and….
It all seems on the table now after a performance like this. But whatever happens, this is a day that will live forever in Canadian soccer lore, said Marsch.
“When I came here, the vision was more than just the World Cup,” he said. “It was to change the sport in this country…. You need moments like today. You need moments where everyone remembers what happened.”
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Canada’s quiet moment speaks volumes about this country
AL VIGIER
Contributing
writer
Decibels are a bad way to measure a crowd, but they are the only way I have, so let me try.
Six times on Thursday afternoon, Canada scored on Qatar, and six times BC Place did the thing stadiums do, that compressed animal roar where 54,000 separate people briefly stop being separate. I have felt versions of it before. The 2010 ceremonies in this same building A Lions Western Final with the roof shut. It is a wonderful, stupid, full-body sound, and I made my share of it.
But the loudest sound I heard all day was not aimed at a goal. It was aimed at a 23-year-old lying on a stretcher
Work backward with me, because the goals almost get in the way of the story. Cyle Larin opened the scoring in the 16th. Jonathan David scored in the 29th, again in first-half stoppage time, and a third time late, a hat trick at a home World Cup, which is a sentence Canadians have genuinely never been able to write before. Qatar put one into their own net. It finished 6-0, the largest margin any CONCACAF nation has ever managed at a World Cup, and the first men’s World Cup win in Canadian history, full stop. By the hour mark the result was a formality and the building had relaxed into something close to a party
Then, just after the restart, Qatar’s Assim Madibo caught Ismaël Koné from behind, and the party stopped mid-sentence.
You could see it was bad before the replay confirmed it. Koné’s lower leg gave out under him. The screen showed it once and the crowd physically turned away, tens of thousands of heads swivelling at the same instant like a field of grass in
wind. Then came the part I keep returning to. The silence. Not the polite, respectful dip a crowd does for an injury. A real one. The loudest room in the country went almost completely quiet for a kid it had been chanting about 90 seconds earlier I want to sit in that silence for a second, because I think it is the most Canadian thing that happened all day, more than the goals, more than the flags. A crowd that size going still on purpose is not a small thing. It is 54,000 people independently deciding, in the same moment, that a young man’s leg matters more than the scoreline they came to celebrate. Nobody organized it. There was no announcement, no prompt on the screen It just happened, the way the right thing sometimes does when enough people are
in a room together
And then Koné, flat on his back, lifted one arm and gave the stands a thumbs up. What came down to him in return was the loudest sound of my afternoon. Not the biggest goal roar This. A wall of noise built entirely out of relief and affection, the sound of a city telling a hurt 23-yearold that it saw him I have been in loud rooms my whole life. I have never heard a louder one made out of something so simple.
The football kept its promises after that. Nathan Saliba came on for Koné, curled in a free kick within minutes, then sprinted to the boards and held Koné’s number 8 shirt over his head. The whole stadium read it instantly Players overuse the word brotherhood until it means nothing. Saliba spent about four seconds making it mean something again
There were other signals that this had outgrown a football match. Prime Minister Mark Carney appeared in the dressing room afterward Alphonso Davies, still working his way back to full sharpness, spent the celebrations running solo
sprints across an empty stretch of pitch while everyone else celebrated, a man visibly thinking about June 24 while the rest of us were still stuck on the afternoon in front of us.
Because there is a June 24. Switzerland, same building. A win or a draw tops Group B and keeps Canada in Vancouver for the Round of 32. A loss sends the team to Los Angeles. After Thursday, I would not bet against this group inside these walls, and I suspect 54,000 other people feel the same.
But I will not remember June 18 for the six goals, and I think a lot of the people next to me will not either I will remember the two sounds that bracketed Koné’s injury. The silence we made when he went down, and the roar we made when he told us he was OK. A stadium is supposed to be the place you go to be loud about winning. On Thursday it turned into the place we got to be loud about caring, and that turned out to be the better sound.
The next goal is for him. He will hear it. Al Vigier is a North Vancouver resident and Team Canada fan.
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Nathan Saliba holds up the jersey of Ismaël Koné after Koné suffered a serious leg injury against Qatar June 18 in Vancouver. Saliba subbed on for Koné and scored a goal just minutes later, prompting the heartfelt celebration. CANADA SOCCER
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