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Our Canada Day Traditions:
- We decorate the front of our house with flags, balloons, streamers, pretty much any decoration with a Canadian Flag on it. (Yes, we are those crazy people on the block!)
- We all wear matching Canada Day t shirt (There are 13 of us in our family)
- Make the Kraft Canada Strawberry Flag cake. (Oh soooo yummy!)
- Have a big bbq and eat too much!
We are proud to be Canadian and hope that our enthusiasm spreads! I would love to see our whole street decorated with Canadian flags for Canada Day!

This Canada Day we will celebrate with a family breakfast of pancakes topped with local strawberries and homemade whipped cream (very convenient that the toppings are red and white :)). We'll probably go down to the parade with the kiddies decked out in their red and whites. Weather permitting we'd like to go out to Cultus Lake and visit Grandma and Grandpa and have a family bbq, enjoying all the beauty that is Beautiful British Columbia!
Canada day is definitly a time spend time with family and reflect on how incredibly fortunate we are to live in such great country. Kinda makes me want to break out in song ... 'Oh Canada, our true north strong and free ...' :)
And, if we're really, really lucky we'll be there with our Stonz booties and Mally bib on! *wink, wink*

We look forward to Canada Day all year round. We attend the local parade, seated in the same spot every year with an incredible group of friends, then head home for a quick lunch, after which we attend a children's festival and then a barbeque with friends and family. It's a great way to celebrate the end of a school year and the start of summer.

Planning to celebrate Canada day with family all around. Going to walk about town, have a wicked BBQ and relax in the yard.

We usually go down to Granville Island and hang out and play. This year we may try camping since our trip to Calgary has been cancelled. The boys will be dressed in red and white, hopefully with the baby in his Canada bib and booties.

With our new addition to our family, Riley who will almost be 3 months on July 1st will celebrate Canada Day along with family and friends at our home. We will be having a "Backyard Bash"--bbq, hot tub, fire pit with our family and friends. No fireworks this year as Riley is too little.

We usually celebrate Canada day on our boat anchored out on the water. We spend the day with good friends eating, swimming and laughing! There is even a live band on a boat playing great music! We look forward to it every year!

We are spending Canada at a cottage in Muskoka which is located 2 hours nother of Toronto. We plan on going for a boat ride to watch the fireworks and also having a bbq. We love Canada Day, especially when the weather is nice!

Our Canada Day will be spent with friends. We will take our wonderful twins down to Princess Island Park to enjoy the Canada Day Festivities where we will meet up with friends to celebrate. All of us will be gettiing some face painting done in Canada Day Themes. We will each be bringing some potluck-picnic foods to share down there. Afterward we will all get together and watch the fireworks at the end of the day! It will be a great get-together time!

I plan to celebrate Canada Day with my husband and daughter. We will take the bus to Granville Island, take the little ferry to the Maritime Museum, walk to the Kitsilano Showboat, and then walk home. A lovely car-free day.

A day of remembrance

Canada Day is very important in our family. My twin nephews were born July 1st at 26 weeks along. We lost the first 3 days later and the second exactly one week later. Every canada day we purchase a toy appropriate for the age the boys would have been and donate the toys. Then we buy flowers in red and white and we buy two canadian flags. We go the visit the boys at their grave and lay their flowers out. Everyone shares a quiet minute and we pray for our little angels who were taken from us shortly after we met them. As we have children we share the experience with them of their special cousins/brothers and that they are watching over them. Canada day, for us, is certainly a day we remember just how lucky we are to be in this wonderful country and we are thankful for the freedom we have.

We are a very prominent military family.. my sister and brother in law are military, i married a soldier, my father, my grandfather, my uncles... the list goes on. We know all too well how good we have it here and as military wives we know what it is to sacrifice being away from our men for the better of our country. My husband was in afghanistan last year. He was sent 4 weeks before the birth of our first baby. Our little girl is now 9 months old and she too will grow up loving and being thankful for what her daddy does.

Catherine

We will be doing a lot of things this Canada Day. We will be on our first camping trip of the year. My husband, two boys (Johnathan and Dawson), little girl (Abigail) and myself will be sitting around the fire in the evening, relaxing from a busy day. That day we will have had friends over for lunch before visiting the cities lake and participating in all the children's activities. My kidlets will be dressed in their red and white, like usual. That evening around the fire will be spend with their paternal Grandparents. Grandpa will likely tell the boys all about what Canada Day means to him as a retired military man.

I just wanted to say that I love Mally Bibs and have been a fan for quite a few years now!

We are lucky enough to live in the Nation's Capital (Ottawa!) so we like to spend Canada Day celebrating on the Hill. Breakfast with the grandparents and then a trip to see the RCMP musical ride have become part of the tradition of the day and we love updating our family picture (and mark how much the kids have grown) with a pic with parliament hill in the background (in our Canadian gear and maple leaf tatoos). And one of the other fun traditions of the day is sending my cousin's kids who live in California their annual Canada Day tees for them to wear proudly on Canada Day! I am a proud Canadian and my family loves to show its Canadian pride! Go Canada!!

Canada Day is very big deal around our home. Every year since our oldest child was born ...that's almost 10 years ago now ... we have celebrated the importance of Canada day as a family. We are very proud to live in such a beautiful country and appreciate our wonderful, blessed life here. We go down to our local Canada Day parade, always decked out in Red and white T shirts and maple leaf tattoos and have shared a BBQ with good friends.... But what is an absolute requirement, no matter what, is to take in a Fireworks celebration for Canada Day. It is a long standing requirement for our family to make our day complete and really starts our summer with a BANG! Our children are usually bundled up in a blanket in their jamas, some of them pulled out of bed. We bring along a yummy treat and close the day down together under the fire works. This year with a 9 month old baby again .... we will for sure need to pick up the Canada Mally bib for our new babe to enjoy her special treat and to celebrate too! Happy Canada EH!

We take our kids camping , and to a bbq were they have fireworks and watch the kids faces light up when they go up ...

I like to dress the kids up in their new Canada shirts and paint our faces and go and watch the parade. Then we head to the stadium for tons of activities for the kids and fireworks to end the day.

I will celebrate the 4th of July with my extended family and a fireworks show.

We spend our Canada Day with family watching the Abbotsford parade. This year my oldest daughter will help decorate and ride on a float with her preschool. I'm looking forward to it!

How do you plan on celebrating your Country's National Day?

We head down to the Abbotsford Canada day parade with the girls all decked out in their red & white ~ then back home for Dads yummy BBQ

This will be my son's 1st 4th of July so we plan on dressing him in his stars and stripes and heading to a good old American bar-be-que at the grandparents with hamburgers, hotdogs, and homemade ice cream! Afterwards we plan on doing a little swimming and shooting off some fireworks. Just a nice relaxing day with friends and family!