Victoria Day Parade 6 - Ethnic Communities

I have to confess that the Victoria Day Parade is getting a lot of coverage here this year partially because the weather lately has been dreadful - cold and dark and rainy - so I have not been out and about much despite two very inviting outdoor events - the Highland Games and the Swiftsure Yacht Race. However, the parade really deserves more exposure than I usually give it so here are a few more photos representing some of the displays put on by Victoria's ethnic communities. The girls above were in one of several displays representing our vibrant Chinese-Canadian community and the young woman below was playing on a float celebrating the Polish ethnic community.

Victoria Day Parade

(Text is from "Tao Te Ching" by Lao Tzu, in a new translation by Sam Hamill, Shambhala 2007. The boy in the photo was on a float representing the Chinese community in the Victoria Day Parade, the main event of this long weekend.)