{"id":774692,"date":"2026-07-02T04:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/774692\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T04:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:02:14","slug":"photos-canada-day-parade-marches-through-parksville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/774692\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: Canada Day Parade marches through Parksville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              PHOTOS: Canada Day Parade marches through Parksville<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 4:30 pm Wednesday, July 1, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Parksville celebrated Canada Day with a parade, live music and activities in the community park on July 1 to mark the 159th anniversary of confederation.<\/p>\n<p>Crowds gathered on both sides of the Island Highway for the Canada Day Parade in the morning, with the day also including a pancake breakfast and activities in Parksville Community Park.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors to the park enjoyed face-painting, multiple live bands, sandcastle building, Canada Day cupcakes, a magician\u2019s tricks and more.<\/p>\n<p>The theme for this year\u2019s Canada Day was \u2018Proudly Canadian, Proudly Parksville\u2019, according to the City of Parksville.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/pqbnews.com\/2026\/06\/30\/qualicum-beach-woman-campaigns-to-have-o-canada-sung-across-country-on-july-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Qualicum Beach woman campaigns to have \u2018O Canada\u2019 sung across country on July 1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: Canada Day Parade marches through Parksville Published 4:30 pm Wednesday, July 1, 2026 Parksville celebrated Canada Day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-774692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774692","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=774692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}