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The Concord Pacific Dragon Boat Festival is a legacy of Expo 86, where Vancouver's Chinese-Canadian community introduced the traditional annual Chinese Duanwu Festival (summer solstice) to Canada as a cultural outreach program to share Chinese culture with the city's multi-cultural population. The dragon boat festival was created to promote ...
False Creek is a very popular boating area for many different activities including rowing, dragon boating, canoeing, kayaking, public ferries, charter ships, and visiting pleasure boats. It has 10 marinas with berths for 1500 watercraft [ 18 ] and several paddling clubs or boat rental facilities.
The Canadian National Dragonboat Championships is an annual three day competition organized by Dragonboat Canada and held in Ontario, Canada.Dragonboat teams from all over Canada, including Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, and Halifax, attend this event. [1]
DOXA Documentary Film Festival; PuSh International Performing Arts Festival; Sundar Prize Film Festival [1] Vancouver Asian Film Festival; Vancouver Fringe Festival; Vancouver International Film Festival; Vancouver Queer Film Festival
Dragon boats – the six teak wooden boats used to celebrate Hong Kong (pavilion) Day by holding a dragon boat racing festival were raced annually for a number of years before being put into dry dock. In 2015 the original 6, plus 3 more teak and 6 Taiwanese dragon boats, were transferred to Salmon Arm, BC and completely restored.
Heavy snowfall on Jan. 15 caused the metal roof over a dock at Sun Life's Concord Marina to collapse, resulting in extensive damage. In a statement posted on the Sun Life Concord Marina Facebook ...
The International Dragon Boat Federation (Chinese: 國際龍舟聯合會) is the international governing body for the sport of dragon boat racing. IDBF was founded in Hong Kong on June 24, 1991 by Australia , China , Taiwan , Great Britain , Hong Kong , Indonesia , Italy , Malaysia , Norway , the Philippines , Singapore , and the United States ...
Machestic Dragons, New Jersey's first Breast Cancer Survivor Dragon Boat team, was established in 2005. They practice on Mercer Lake in West Windsor, New Jersey. [84] Paddle for Pink is their annual dragon boat festival, held each June in Mercer County Park. [85] GoPink!DC, a breast cancer survivor team in Washington, DC [86]