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. Read the rest of this entry »
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