Alberta Events
Calgary
August 8th at 6p.m. Memorial in Calgary Regarding Atomic Bombings Of Hiroshima & Nagasaki. 3rd floor of Calgary Area Outdoor Council, 1111 Memorial Dr. N.W. Wheelchair access available. (About a 10 minute walk from Sunnyside train station.) Hour long movie “Original Child Bomb” (the DVD is already at a house in Calgary and it works so the movie will be ready for the memorial), an indoor lantern ceremony and candle ceremony with non-flammable glow cubes instead of real lanterns and candles, to remind us of the real lantern ceremony in Hiroshima and real candles in Nagasaki, and a discussion. There will be 5-10 minutes of anti-war music.
British Columbia Events
Victoria
August 6th at 7:30 PM. Craigflower Park. Victoria, BC. Kosapsom at Admirals Road & Gorge Road West Saanich. Annual lantern ceremony, marking the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Japan. Lantern making starts at 7:30 pm, with words and songs of peace at 8:00 pm, followed by floating the lanterns in the Gorge. All welcome. Free. (Bring a blanket and/or chair to sit on.) Sponsored by the Victoria Raging Grannies, Victoria Peace Coalition, Physicians for Global Survival, Victoria Nikkei Cultural Society. Click here for the poster
Powell River, BC
August 6 at Willingdon Beach, Powell River, BC. Proclamation by the Mayor, speeches, songs, and memorial candle lighting with children. Proclamation by Mayor Stewart Alsgard. Opening by Dr. Sylvia Keet. Peace songs and music by local musicians. Peace Poem Contest Winners to read their poems. Lantern making for young and old. Join the peace-loving people of Powell River as we commemorate the events that changed the world forever. Participants can make candle lit peace lanterns and float them on the outgoing tide to remember those lost to the terrible events. Click here for poster
Denman Island, BC
August 6th at 2:00 PM. Community Hall Park. Denman Island. “Remembering Hiroshima, Remembering Jim”. We will be folding origami paper cranes to remember Hiroshima, the futility of war, and Jim Bohlen, one of our founding members and founding member of Greenpeace, who died on July 5th. Refreshments will be served.
Vancouver
July 21 and Aug. 1st. Vancouver. VSA9 – Vancouver Save Article 9). Atomic Bomb Photo Shaw/Story Telling to be held at Vancouver Japanese Language School in conjunction with the Powell Street Festival (a traditional Japanese community festival). The organization: “Veterans against Nuclear Arms” is arranging a Hiroshima/Nagasaki Day Proclamation by the mayor of Vancouver at the outset of the festival.
Ontario Events
Toronto
August 6th. Toronto Peace Garden, Nathan Phillips Square
5:30PM Origami Making. 6:30PM Peace Commemoration City of Toronto proclaims August 6th Hiroshima Day! Join us for Canada’s largest Hiroshima Day Annual Peace Commemorations featuring performance by 3x Juno Nominated Artist Tom Barlow, keynote the Hon. Bob Rae (Liberal Party of Canada Foreign Affairs Critic) and many more speakers and performers. Launch your very own paper lantern with your “personalized message” of peace during the popular Reflecting Light Lantern ceremony.
August 4-6th. Rotunda. Toronto City Hall. Hiroshima, Nagasaki Photo Exhibit & Survivors Artwork returns to Toronto City Hall at the Rotunda. View dozens of unique artwork, drawings and photos depicting before and after the atomic bombings of 1945. Learn about the effects of radiation and what people around the world are doing to bring peace… More
Ottawa
August 6th at 6:30 Gathering at Friends Meeting House, 91A Fourth Ave, Ottawa at 6:30 PM for lantern making, song, speeches, at 7:30 PM followed by a procession to Brown’s inlet to float the lanterns at dusk. Guest speaker: Honourable Flora MacDonald. Sponsored by Physicians for Global Survival with the participation of Ploughshares Ottawa, Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), World Without Wars and Without Violence and Les bâtisseurs de Paix – students from schools in Gatineau, Quebec.
Kingston, ON
August 6, at 7:00 PM. Kingston Market Square. Hiroshima Day Lantern Ceremony. Everyone Welcome. Enjoy music. Make floating lanterns. Sponsors: Kingston Hiroshima Day Coalition, Amnesty International Kingston, Kingston Interval House, Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul, Physicians for Global Survival. Click here for poster
Burlington, ON
August 7th & 8th. Running for Peace. Ginny Megin of Burlington, is celebrating her 60th birthday and the 65th anniversary of the terrible tragedy of Hiroshima bombing with a run. This will help raise funds for Physicians for Global Survival (PGS) and to help abolish nuclear weapons. If you are a runner (or even a walker), please join us. You can also support by making a tax-creditable donation to PGS online at www.pgs.ca
August 7th at 8:15 am. Meet with Burlington Runners. Aldershot Pool, Aldershot High School, 50 Fairwood Place W., Burlington. 5km walk/run or 8km run only. After shower & change go for “Beer run”, brunch, social time at 1322 Winterberry Dr., Burlington, ON; Meet with runners and PGS people.
August 7th at 7 pm. Celebrate Ginny’s Birthday and the movement to ‘Retire the Bomb at 65’; Emma’s Back Porch, 2084 Old Lakeshore Road. Burlington L7R 1A3. Appetizers start at 7pm and last till 9pm $20 donation to PGS suggested.
August 8 at 10:30 am. First Unitarian Church, 180 Dundurn St. South, Hamilton. Hear Ginny speak about the influence of an August 6 birthday and our community. After service optional walk/run for 30-40 min and return to church for snacks and drinks.
Midland, ON
August 7th. Penetanguishene Farmers’ Market from 9:30 to 11:30. Peaceworks Midland will have a table at the market and will leaflet and invite shoppers to sign a petition to divert government spending from the military to social and environmental programs.
Québec Events
Montréal
August 5 at 7PM. Peace ceremony at Bontanical Gardens, Japanese Pavillion, Montreal. Cérémonie qui commémore le bombardement atomique de la Ville d’Hiroshima en 1945. Le maire de Montréal MONSIEUR GÉRALD TREMBLAY et le directeur general des Muséums nature de Montréal MONSIEUR CHARLES-MATHIEU BRUNELLE. Vous invitent à participer à la Cérémonie de la paix à la mémoire d’Hiroshima en presence du consul général du Japon à Montréal MONSIEUR HIROAKI ISOBE et du président de la Fondation du Jardin et du Pavillon japonais de Montréal MONSIEUR CLAUDE GAGNÉ. 4581, rue Sherbrooke Est (Stationnement payant) (Métro Pie IX, autobus 185). Click here for the poster
Manitoba Events
Winnipeg
August 6th at 7:30 -9:30 pm. Lanterns for Peace. Memorial Park, Winnipeg. Lantern Making. Speech from the Mayor of Hiroshima. The Lantern Ceremony. Reading of the Story of Sadako. Organized by: Manitoba Japanese Canadian Association, Peace Alliance Winnipeg, Project Peacemakers.
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Web: www.projectpeacemakers.org
Brandon, MB
August 6th at 7:30 to 9:30 PM. Keystone YMCA Pool on 13th Street in Brandon. Brandon and District Labour Council and the Brandon Family YMCA will will hold Brandon’s Third Annual Japanese Lantern Ceremony for World Peace. Everybody is welcome to come and make a lantern to be floated at sunset on the water in memory of those who have died as a result of war and to affirm our commitment to building a peaceful future. (All supplies for making a lantern will be provided.) Hear speakers and a message of Peace from the Mayor of Hiroshima. Please bring a lawn chair.
Saskatchewan Events
Saskatoon
August 6, 2010 at 7:00 pm in Rotary Peace Pole Park (Saskatchewan Crescent between Traffic Bridge and the Senator Sid Buckwold Bridge). The Saskatoon Peace Coalition, Project Ploughshares and Veterans Against Nuclear Arms are organizing a Hiroshima Day commemoration. In case of rain, the commemoration will be held in St. David’s-Trinity United Church, 3318 Merritt Street, Montgomery Place.