Vancouver Dragon Boat Festival

June 13th, 2008 Categories: Vancouver Events, Vancouver Real Estate

Vancouver holds an annual Dragon Boat Festival in False Creek June 21-22

The ancient Asian spectacle of dragon boat racing takes place in Vancouver’s False Creek.

It began at Expo 86. Vancouverites liked it and interest started to grow.

In 1989 former BC Lieutenant Governor Dr. David C. Lam and prominent businessman Milton K. Wong lead the creation of the Canadian International Dragon Boat Festival.

The Festival was created to show off Vancouver’s growing cultural diversity and to promote racial harmony among Canadians - new and old. Vancouverites were invited to the festival to experience spectacular food, entertainment, arts and children’s programming reflecting Vancouver’s cultural diversity. At the same time, interest in paddling was taking off and more and more teams formed and registered each year.

Twenty years later the Festival still fulfills its mandate to promote cultural harmony among Canadians. It has developed into one of Vancouver’s most anticipated summer family events.

Recognized as North America’s biggest and best, Vancouver’s Rio Tinto Alcan Dragon Boat Festival 20th Anniversary will be a true celebration of multiculturalism, attracting over 90,000 people and more than 180 dragon boat teams from across the Lower Mainland and around the globe.

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