Nunavut rolls out Canada Day parades, barbecues and games
Communities are celebrating Canada’s birthday in their own ways
Some Canada Day celebrants show off their bike-decorating efforts at Kuujjuaq’s festivities in 2020. This year, communities across the North are organizing barbecues, parades and competitions to celebrate the country’s birthday. (File photo by Isabelle Dubois)
As Canada turns 156 on Monday, communities across Nunavut and Canada are marking the day with parades, games and get-togethers.
Here are some Canada Day events to participate in if you are looking to celebrate the occasion.
Iqaluit — Iqaluit’s Canada Day parade will begin at noon at the Arctic Winter Games Arena and will conclude at the Nakashuk Elementary School at around 2 p.m.
The city will also host several other events:
- Civic Ceremony at a tent in front of the Nakashuk school from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. with city and Government of Nunavut officials attending
- Bike-decorating contest from 10 to 11 a.m. at Arctic Winter Games Arena
- A chili handout by the fire department from 1:30 to 2:30 at Iqaluit Square
- Face-painting from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Iqaluit Square
Rankin Inlet — The hamlet is organizing a number of events including:
- A Canada Day parade will start at the fire hall at noon and will take about half an hour
- Community barbecue at 1 p.m. outside the old Rankin Inlet Arena
- Kids’ carnival from 2 p.m. outside the community hall
- Cardboard-boat racing at Williamson Lake at 3 p.m. where contestants will be prompted to make boats from cardboard and duct tape and try to get from one side of lake to another
- Target shooting at shooting range at 6 p.m.
Gjoa Haven — The hamlet is organize a barbecue behind the community hall along with a number of contests including cake and bike-decorating, bannock-baking and tea-boiling contests. Events are set to start at 11 a.m.
Cambridge Bay — Cambridge Bay will commemorate Canada Day with an afternoon barbecue and games at the ball diamonds, starting at noon. A feast was held on Sunday at 6 p.m. at the community hall.
Ottawa — Inuit Tapariit Kanatami and Métis National Council are hosting a celebration of Inuit culture, language and music at the Indigenous Peoples Space at 100 Wellington St. from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. All events are free.
Why would anyone celebrate their colonizers?
HAPPY CANADA DAY , FELLOW CANADIANS !!!!!!!!!!!!
Because Canada is a fundamentally good country that offers great opportunities to all its citizens.
Because they are awesome 👌
Let’s see:
1. Because Canada is, on a world scale, an absolutely incredible place.
2. Many have a more sophisticated and nuanced understanding of Canadian history and can acknowledge wrongs and still celebrate the great.
3. The ‘colonized’ in Canada are a miniscule part of the population, and the remaining majority should be allowed to celebrate as they wish if they so choose.
4. The holiday doesn’t celebrate ‘colonizers’, it celebrates the country that we all share.
Pua! prolly all growed up but still sorry not sorry
I can think of about 2,200,000,000 reasons per annum that Canada should be celebrated in Nunavut.
I think sovereignty is enough in return.
You should be celebrating it because everything is handed to you on a silver platter and if USSR had of been the country to colonize you, your people would probably have been wiped out.
Anyone knows who will be performing in Iqaluit for Qilqut concert advertized for 4 pm to 8 pm?
SAD, free hotdogs that’s why see you there