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fireworks over the harbor for Canada Day
The
Vancouver Pride Parade
(downtown, 604/687-0955,
www.vancouverpride.ca
,
first Sun. in Aug.) culminates a week of gay pride celebration. It runs along Denman
Street, ending at Sunset Beach, where there's entertainment and partying. Festivities dur-
ing the preceding week include a picnic in Stanley Park, Gay Day at Playland, a ball at
Plaza of Nations, art exhibitions, nightly parties in local nightclubs, and following the
parade, a harbor cruise.
Attractingmorethan300,000spectators,
Abbotsford International Airshow
(Abbots-
ford,604/852-8511,
www.abbotsfordairshow.com
,secondweekendofAug.),oneofNorth
America's largest airshows (and voted world's best in the 1990s), is held at Vancouver's
“other” airport, 70 kilometers (43 miles) east of downtown in Abbotsford. The highlight
is a flyby of Canada's famous Snowbirds, but there's a full program of stunt and technical
