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For the British Columbia Day holiday, Centennial Square is one of the venues for the Victoria Electronic Music Festival, where musicians and DJs play for free. [4] In winter 2012, the Downtown Victoria Business Association temporarily set up Christmas lights, a Ferris wheel, [5] and an ice skating rink in the square. [6]
A rocket ship float with Santa Claus during a Christmas parade in Los Angeles, 1940. The Christmas parade is a direct descendant of late Medieval and Renaissance revivals of Roman Triumphs, which had music and banners, wagons filled with the spoils of war, and climaxed with the dux riding in a chariot, preferably drawn by two horses, and thus called the biga.
Victoria Day is not a paid public holiday but is a government holiday in: Newfoundland and Labrador; [30] [31] Nova Scotia, where it is also not a designated retail closing day, but is considered a "non-statutory holiday"; [32] and Prince Edward Island, [33] although provincial legislation defines "holiday" to include Victoria Day. [34]
Victoria is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of 91,867, and the Greater Victoria area has a population of 397,237.
Willows Beach is also the location of the annual Oak Bay Tea Party, in which people from all over Victoria participate, enjoying the rides, shows, games, and the parade which runs all around Oak Bay. To the very north of the beach, is Uplands Park to the left (North) of Beach Drive and Cattle Point on the water side of the road (South).
Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus ... the future Queen Victoria wrote about her delight at having a Christmas ... (December 2024) ...
This is a list of historic places in the Capital Regional District, British Columbia (excluding the City of Victoria) entered on the Canadian Register of Historic Places, whether they are designated federally, provincially or municipally.
In November 2024, the parade's CEO reported a $250,000 shortfall in the event's 2025 budget and launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise money. Usually, 75 to 85% of the parade's funding comes from corporate sponsorship with the remainder being funded by the provincial government, but an increase in costs and decrease in corporate sponsorship since the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a projected ...