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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.
The Bay Centre (formerly the Victoria Eaton Centre) is a shopping mall in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It is bounded by Douglas, Government, Fort, and View streets, in the city's historic centre. [2] It has 39,115 square metres (421,030 sq ft) of retail space. [3] Opening in 1989, the mall was the first large shopping mall in downtown ...
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.
The 2024 British Columbia general election was held on October 19, 2024, to elect 93 members (MLAs) of the Legislative Assembly to serve in the 43rd parliament of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The election was the first to be held since a significant redistribution of electoral boundaries was finalised in 2023. The Legislative ...
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 ...
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.
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Victoria is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1872 to 1904 and since 1925. The riding was originally chartered as Victoria District for the special byelections held in 1871 upon the province's entry into Confederation .