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The Riverside Park Community and Recreation Association organized fireworks displays for over twenty years until changes in safety legislation required its removal to a larger area. Sheldon Ridgeway, then an Ottawa firefighter, started the public activity. After a six-year gap, the fireworks display was moved to Mooney's Bay in 2015. [2]
Canada Day, [a] formerly known as Dominion Day, [b] is the national day of Canada.A federal statutory holiday, it celebrates the anniversary of Canadian Confederation which occurred on July 1, 1867, with the passing of the British North America Act, 1867, when the three separate colonies of the United Canadas, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick were united into a single dominion within the British ...
FILE - Fireworks are seen over the Sydney Opera House during New Year's Eve celebrations on Jan. 1, 2022, in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Wendell Teodoro/Getty Images)
Ottawa Festivals, is a member-based organization based in Ottawa, Ontario Canada, supporting and promoting the festival industry in the region. Established in 1996, the organization comprises 53 festivals that showcase a diverse range of cultures, arts, and entertainment to the local community.
Canada Day fireworks planned for Saturday night in Montreal have been cancelled as air-quality concerns persist because of wildfires burning in northern Quebec. The Canadian wildfires have ...
November 14–December 8 – Taylor Swift embarks on her nine stops in Toronto and Vancouver for the highly anticipated Eras Tour. The shows in Canada mark the end of the Eras Tour overall. November 15 – Workers at Canada Post go on strike after failing to reach an agreement over wages and workplace safety with the firm's management. [111]
CBOFT first signed on the air on June 24, 1955, as the first French-language television station in Ontario. Previously, CBOT aired both CBC and Radio-Canada programs. For a brief time during 1977 and 1978, until CHOT opened, CBOFT also carried some TVA programs, after Ottawa's first TVA affiliate, CFVO-TV (whose channel 30 frequency is now occupied by CIVO) went bankrupt.
This is a list of festivals in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. This list includes festivals of diverse types, such as regional festivals, commerce festivals , fairs , food festivals , arts festivals , religious festivals , folk festivals , and recurring festivals on holidays .