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Kelowna’s Downtown Jam-Packed With Canada Day Celebrations

Waterfront Park is covered with festivities and people are ready to celebrate Canada. (Photo Credit: KelownaNow.com)

You can’t miss the patriotic spirit in downtown Kelowna on Wednesday.

Festivals Kelowna has gone all out on the Canada Day celebrations, and people dressed in red and white are flooding the downtown. There’s booths highlighting Canadian-made products and a children’s area filled with a climbing wall, hula hoops, and other fun games. The walkway brings you to the Taste of Canada Food Fair, a place of delicious smells including perogies, doughnuts, smokies, and fish and chips.

The Made in Canada Marketplace was so popular that it was hard to get through in the peak of the day. (Photo Credit: KelownaNow.com)

The kids' zone at Waterfront Park. (Photo Credit: KelownaNow.com)

You then spill onto the boardwalk and the beach, where tons of people are cooling off in the water or the shade while listening to live entertainment. The island stage and paths are filled with even more people chattering, laughing, and waving maple leaf flags.

A very patriotic canoe by the boardwalk. (Photo Credit: KelownaNow.com)


The Taste of Canada Food Fair. (Photo Credit: KelownaNow.com)

The full schedule of events is available here on Festival Kelowna’s website, and it includes tons of live music, dancers, the Inspired Word Café, and the Made in Canada Marketplace. Festivals Kelowna also has a handy map showing where the festivities are.


Photo Credit: Festivals Kelowna

The 2014 fireworks show in Kelowna. (Photo Credit: KelownaNow.com)

The big finale comes at 10:30 p.m. with the fireworks show at Tugboat Bay, and that’s something you don’t want to miss.

Transit has extended hours for the fireworks, with buses leaving Queensway Transit exchange 30 minutes after the fireworks end.

Click here to find out what roads and parking lots aren’t open because of Canada Day celebrations.

A young boy posting what he loves about Canada on a Canadian flag. (Photo Credit: KelownaNow.com)

Photo Credit: KelownaNow.com

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