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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.
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.
From 1856 to 1860 the Legislature of the Colony of Vancouver Island met at Bachelor's Hall at Fort Victoria. [2] From 1860 to 1898 it was housed in the first permanent building at Legislative Hall or Legislative Council Court, a two-storey wooden building along with four other buildings (Land Office, Colonial Office, Supreme Court, and Treasury) known colloquially as "The Birdcages" because of ...
Lighted boats depart from Clover Island near the cable bridge at 6 p.m. Dec. 1 and 2. Each night a parade of boats outfitted in holiday lights will motor up the Columbia River on the Kennewick side.
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 ...
Mattawa's annual Christmas parade will walk and roll down Government Road at 6:30 p.m. Friday. The Winter Festival will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Dec 14 at Wahluke ...
CHEK's first logo, used from 1956 to 1960 CHEK-DT studios at 780 Kings Road in Victoria since 1984. The station first signed on the air on December 1, 1956. Originally operating as a CBC affiliate, it was founded by David Armstrong, owner of local radio station CKDA (1220 AM, now CJZN-FM on 91.3); Armstrong originally applied to assign the CKTV call letters for the station, which was changed ...
The McPherson Playhouse, known as The Mac, is a theatre and concert hall in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.Part of the Centennial Square complex on the north side of downtown Victoria, adjacent to the intersection of Pandora and Government streets across from the CTV Vancouver Island studios and the Victoria City Hall, it was originally built as a Pantages Theatre in 1914.