Original Wooden Dragon Boat Festival

Name: Original Wooden Dragon Boat Festival
Start: 2017-07-15T00:00:00
End: 2017-07-17T00:00:00
Location: Canoe Beach Salmon Arm

Jul 15, 2017 to Jul 16, 2017

Canoe Beach Salmon Arm 7721 36 St NE, Salmon Arm, British Columbia V1E 2A9

June 20, 2017

12:00 AM

Canada 150 Original Wooden Dragon Boat Festival

Friday, July 14th - Sunday, July 16th, at Canoe Beach, Shuswap Lake

The Canada 150 Original Wooden Dragon Boat Festival is a new event to be held July 15 and 16, 2017 on Shuswap Lake at Canoe Beach. This Heritage Canada 150 event, in partnership with the Shuswap Rowing & Paddling Club and Aspiral Youth Partners, will offer opportunities for multi-cultural participation and celebrate the historic significance of dragon boating in Canada and the complete restoration of the nine original Hong Kong wooden dragon boats.

Hong Kong and Taiwanese wooden boats with First Nations traditional canoes will be celebrated during a family oriented festival offering ethnically themed foods, cultural entertainment, fine art and children’s programming together with exciting wooden boat races on the shores of Shuswap Lake in Canoe, BC.