Here's how B.C. communities are celebrating Canada Day in 2025

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Communities crossed B.C. are readying events to people the 158th day of Canada’s founding connected Tuesday, July 1.

Events volition beryllium held crossed the state connected Tuesday, the 158th day of Canada’s founding

CBC News

· Posted: Jun 29, 2025 9:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

Two women are laughing arsenic they clasp Canada flags. One of them is holding a pinwheel with assorted countries' flags.

Communities crossed B.C. are readying a big of events to people the 158th day of Canada's founding connected Tuesday, July 1.

Here is simply a speedy roundup of immoderate escaped celebrations happening passim the state connected Canada Day successful 2025.

Metro Vancouver

Vancouver's solemnisation astatine Canada Place bills itself arsenic the largest lawsuit connected the time extracurricular Ottawa, and the metropolis says it is planned collaboratively with the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

The celebrations volition beryllium astatine the waterfront from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. connected Tuesday, with a fig of different events passim the metropolis specified as on Granville Island.

A radical of radical stitchery adjacent a ample signifier marked 'Vancouver'.

While determination won't beryllium fireworks wrong the City of Vancouver itself, radical successful Metro Vancouver tin caput to Surrey's Bill Reid Millennium Amphitheatre, Coquitlam's Town Centre Park and Burnaby's street festival connected Central Boulevard at nighttime to get their fireworks fix.

Another fashionable household lawsuit successful the portion is the Steveston Salmon Festival, celebrating its 78th day this twelvemonth successful Richmond.

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Vancouver Island

Victoria's yearly Canada Day celebration, featuring a fig of philharmonic acts starting astatine 11 a.m., volition reason with fireworks implicit the Inner Harbour adjacent the B.C. Legislature astatine 10:20 p.m.

Celebrations are besides being held astatine Nanaimo's Maffeo Sutton Park, Langford's Starlight Stadium, and a ample fireworks show is besides being held successful Campbell River astatine Robert Oster Park.

B.C. Interior

Kelowna is 1 of the cities that'll beryllium celebrating Canada Day with a fireworks display, which is scheduled for 10 p.m. PT astatine Waterfront Park.

A fig of activities are centred astir the city's waterfront from 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., with extended autobus work aft the fireworks end.

Kamloops is besides ending Tuesday with a fireworks display, which residents are encouraged to ticker from the Rivers Trail successful Riverside Park astir 10 p.m.

However, the City of Vernon's celebrations astatine Polson Park won't see fireworks oregon the drone amusement that took its spot past twelvemonth — though the lawsuit promises a fig of performers starting astatine 11 a.m.

Northern B.C.

The City of Prince George is offering escaped shuttle service to its Canada Day lawsuit at Lheidli T'enneh Memorial Park betwixt 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. connected Tuesday.

Around 20,000 radical are expected to attend, according to the city, which says there volition beryllium a bid of unrecorded performances, nutrient stands celebrating antithetic cultures, and a vendors' marketplace and kids' zone.

A radical of radical mill astir astatine a park.

Fort St. John's Canada Day festivities are headlined by a parade astatine 11 a.m. section clip down 100 Street, arsenic good arsenic events successful Centennial Park.

Free transit being offered

B.C. Transit says determination volition beryllium escaped transit connected section routes oregon shuttles successful Campbell River, Kamloops, Penticton, Powell River, Nanaimo, Squamish and Whistler.

Regular fares volition stay successful Kelowna, Prince George, Salt Spring Island, the Sunshine Coast and Victoria.

Meanwhile, successful Metro Vancouver, TransLink says vacation fares volition beryllium successful effect, and trains and buses volition tally connected a modified schedule.

Those needing to usage B.C. Ferries this play are advised to publication up erstwhile imaginable and take non-peak times, with the ferry authorization providing a graphic of highest question periods for the agelong play based connected past years.

The graphic shows that question to Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast from Metro Vancouver is engaged from Thursday to Saturday, portion question successful the other absorption is busiest connected Monday and Tuesday.