🍁 Celebrate Canada Day with the Rotary Club of Lions Gate!
Join us at The Shipyards for a full day of music, art, and community fun!
A celebration truly for everyone!
📅 July 1st | 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
📍 The Shipyards, North Vancouver
🎵 Live music on 2 stages 🎨 Local artists & artisans 🎉 Activities for kids and adults alike.
Come celebrate Canada with our host Mela Dekker.
Performances by:
JP Fell Pipe Band
The Children of Takaya
Tiller’s Folly
Mela Dekker
T’Sha & Soundwave
Hayley Wallis
Molly & Taylor
Showstoppers
… And guess what? No tickets needed, FREE FOR EVERYONE!
See you there Canada!
Community Stallholders:
- Girl Guides – Lions Area
- Hollyburn Community Services Society
- Immortal Canadian Disaster Outreach Foundation
- KidSport North Shore
- North Shore Black Bear Society
- North Shore Crisis Services Society
- North Shore Medvents by Scouts Canada
- Rotary Club of Lions Gate North Vancouver
- Rotary Club of North Vancouver
- NW Sports Club Society – A Non-Profit Organization
- Pathways Serious Mental Illness Society
- Scouts Canada
- Seaspan
- ShelterBox
- Vancouver Electric Vehicle Association
- Rotary Club of Bowen Island
- Rotary Club of West Vancouver Sunrise
Entertainment Information For Canada Day 2025
Melanie Dekker
Melanie Dekker (Deep Cove, BC) is a roots-pop sensation with a voice like chocolate. Her dutch background grabs you with an easy going, quirky & energized style. In concert she intertwines vivaciously expressed stories with memorable feel-good songs. She’s got world-class guitar chops and brings a banjo on tour as well! Under her belt is the Canadian hit song ‘I Said I’, and in 2021 she released her 9th studio album (A Christmas album inspired by 50’s feel good tunes “The New Old Fashioned Way”!) She’s opened for Diana Krall, Bryan Adams, Russell Peters & Faith Hill and meanwhile has spent more of her career thus far in Europe. You can enjoy a string of popular youtube videos which include her own wisdom tooth removal, a “Worry Gets you Nowhere” storm in BC, and a romantic run-in with a mannequin. On the most honourable note, she has received a Medal of Honour for her tours in Afghanistan and a special song named “Wounded Soldier”, reminding us that love could be the bravest thing of all.
WEBSITE: www.melaniedekker.com
FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/meldekker
INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/melanie.dekker/
JP Fell Pipe Band
The official pipe band of Vancouver’s north shore, the J.P. Fell Pipe Band was founded in 1993 and brings the great sounds of the pipes and drums alive across North and West Vancouver and beyond.
The band takes its name from the North Vancouver armoury, named after Lt. Col. James Pemberton Fell, the first commanding officer of the 6th Field Company in 1911.
The band is primarily a performance band, participating in North Shore community parades and local celebrations, services that honour veterans and service organizations, municipal and residential events, concerts and of course festivals like ScotFestBC.
This non-profit organization provides instruction for anyone wishing to learn the art of Highland bagpipes or drumming at any age.
ShowStoppers Vancouver
ShowStoppers is a GLEE troupe of talented and energetic teen-agers from throughout the Lower Mainland who all participated in Perry Ehrlich’s Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance! musical theatre summer camp, now heading into its 30th anniversary at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver. Previous performances include numerous galas, awards dinners, conventions, on radio and TV, with the legendary group FOREIGNER, at the Pacific National Exhibition
Website: www.theimpresario.ca
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/showstoppersvan
Youth Artists
- Celine Caldwell – handmade ceramics
- Dax Klea – graphic and body artist
- Harlex Ceramics – handmade ceramics
- Tamara Phillips – watercolour artist
- Noriko Kobune – handmade jewellery
- Mindfull Mode – handmade jewellery and accessories
- Mary Eddicott – handmade ceramics
- Breece Austin
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Rotary Club of Lionsgate invites community to Canada Day event at Shipyards
The Rotary Club of Lionsgate has hosted North Vancouver Canada Day celebrations for over thirty years and this year it has partnered with the Shipyards to focus will be on local youth, and disaster and emergency services.