Canada Games torch relay passes through Corner Brook, N.L., on Canada Day

William Ping · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 01, 2025 3:08 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

While Canada Day and Memorial Day are ever a shared juncture successful Newfoundland and Labrador, this year's ceremonies successful Corner Brook besides honoured the upcoming Canada Games, arsenic the torch relay passed done the metropolis connected Tuesday.

"I emotion this," said Vernon Wells, 1 of the 8 torchbearers successful Corner Brook. "This is precise peculiar for me. I was the mascot for the '99 Canada Games here, and it brings backmost a batch of memories."

In Corner Brook, the torch made its mode to the Civic Centre, which was primitively built for the 1999 Canada Winter Games. 

"It gives you a feeling of pride, for the assemblage and for each of the land and remainder of Canada," said Wells. "And it conscionable feels adjacent to the heart."

Meanwhile, the CEO of the Canada Games Host Society said it was a large time to beryllium celebrating the games successful Corner Brook.

Karen Sherriffs said the lawsuit successful Corner Brook was conscionable 1 of 15 stops connected their torch relay, which kicked disconnected precocious past week. 

"The excitement that's determination is conscionable truthful peculiar to see, and it's conscionable been truly overwhelming to spot the enactment we've gotten," Sherriffs said, reflecting connected the torch's travel truthful acold from Port aux Basques. 

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"A batch of affirmative things are happening passim the province. I deliberation the torch relay really signifies that," said Premier John Hogan, who was successful Corner Brook for the Canada Day emblem raising ceremony. He besides attended a Memorial Day lawsuit successful Pasadena. 

"And the information that Memorial Day overlaps with Canada Day, I deliberation it's a bully clip to deliberation astir what we've contributed to Canada," Hogan said. "Canada is fortunate to person us, and we're fortunate to person Canada."

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