L N 5/16/22 L N 5/16/22

Lillooet Japanese Internment Memorial Garden Opening

Lillooet Japanese Internment Memorial Garden Opening in Lillooet, BC on Saturday May 7, 2022.

Minister Rob Fleming with internment survivors

Dignitaries group photo

Dr. Aki Horii and other dignitaries

Ribbon cutting ceremony

Louis and Dr. Aki Horii

Internment Camp Survivors

L N 10/1/21 L N 10/1/21

Truth and Reconciliation Day Drum Ceremony

National Day of Truth and Reconciliation Drum Ceremony in Vancouver, BC.

The Nisga’a Ts’amiks Vancouver Society hosted a drum ceremony for Canada’s first National Day of Truth and Reconciliation on Thursday September 30, 2021 at Trout Lake in Vancouver, BC. The public ceremony was to honour the children who have died because of residential schools including the Kamloops Residential School. It was supposed to pour rain all day, but during the ceremony it did not rain and the sun even shone. Only a few minutes after the main event was finished did it start to rain.

Squamish elders

Drum ceremony

Members of the public

Dancing as part of the drum ceremony

L N 3/26/21 L N 3/26/21

Dance Bubbles Around Vancouver

Small Stage, Tourism Vancouver and the Vancouver business community created an outdoor art installation of dancers in large bubbles. The dance installation was hosted in different parts of the city during March 2021. Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Dancer interacts with child

Modern dance

Chinese dancer

Child observes dancer

2/18/20 2/18/20

Stephen Colbert in Vancouver for Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics

Thowback to when American comedian Stephen Colbert was in Vancouver during 2010 Winter Olympics to film the Colbert Show. He filmed his show on February 17 and 18, 2010 (10 years ago today) at the park down at Science World in False Creek and invited the public to come.He called us bunch of syrup sucking ice-holes and rode a prop moose after the crowd started chanting, "Ride the moose! Ride the moose!"