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Canada Day celebrations return with a bang

Full slate of activities held with undercurrent of respect for Indigenous Peoples’ experience

The Quality Foods Festival of Lights fireworks returned to Robert Ostler Park in Campbell River on Canada Day, July 1, 2022 after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The event began with Indigenous Elder Laverne Henderson offering a blessing at the opening ceremonies that included a request for a minute of silence in remembrance of the children lost to residential schools.

Earlier throughout Canada Day, activities were held from Willow Point to downtown, including the Campbell River Rotary Parade.