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\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted April 22, 2026 2:26 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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The 2026 Surrey Nagar Kirtan<\/a>, also known as the Vaisakhi Parade<\/a>, welcomed over 450,000 people to the Newton area on Saturday.<\/p>\n The event is widely considered the largest of its kind in the world.<\/p>\n Over 20 floats representing local Gurdwaras, Khalsa Schools, Sikh organizations and humanitarian groups were in the procession.<\/p>\n Vaisakhi marks the founding of the Khalsa in 1699 by Guru Gobind Singh Ji.<\/p>\n The Khalsa is an order Sikh\u2019s live by, promoting the values of devotion, equality, honesty and community service.<\/p>\n One of the pillars of Sikhism is seva, the concept of selfless service.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won’t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n Hundreds of families and businesses demonstrated seva by serving hot free meals and refreshments known as langar along the route.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t3:48 \n\t\t\tMore on Canada Organizer Moninder Singh says, Vaisakhi is deeply rooted within Surrey and welcomes people from across North America and the world.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a sovereign kind of space it\u2019s where we come together to talk about faith and spirituality and community is probably the biggest pillar of that, which we see today; with the opportunity to take our language and heritage onto the streets of Surrey.\u201d<\/p>\n Surrey\u2019s Vaisakhi Parade began in 1998, initiated by Surrey\u2019s Gurdwara Sahib Dasmesh Darbar.<\/p>\n The first parade saw around 16,000 people attend.<\/p>\n Attendance levels continued to grow throughout the years with 100,000 attendees in 2007.<\/p>\n Vaisakhi also marks the beginning of the harvest season, making it a very joyous occasion.<\/p>\n \n\t\t© 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jayden Jhutti Global News Posted April 22, 2026 2:26 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674,233297,217934],"class_list":{"0":"post-621697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-surrey","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-surrey","11":"tag-surrey-vaisakhi-parade","12":"tag-vaisakhi-parade"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\")
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