Surrey\u2019s Canada Day event draws more than 80K people<\/p>\n
Published 1:00 pm Thursday, July 2, 2026<\/p>\n
Surrey\u2019s July 1st Canada Day celebration drew more than 80,000 people to the Bill Reid Millennium Amphitheatre in Cloverdale.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s reputedly the largest Canada Day celebration in Western Canada.<\/p>\n
\u201cEighty thousand, it\u2019s crazy,\u201d said Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke. \u201cPeople really want to come to these events, they want this kind of activity in our city and we also know 50 per cent of entertainment dollars are leaving Surrey. We need to keep those dollars here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Canadian country star Josh Ross headlined the event, which also heard performances from Lee Aaron and Tyler Shaw.<\/p>\n
People enjoyed live entertainment on four stages, an Indigenous village and marketplace, food trucks, beer gardens, amusement rides with fireworks as a grand finale.<\/p>\n
Surrey\u2019s Canada Day event was presented by Prospera.<\/p>\n
\u201cSurrey Canada Day is always a great event,\u201d said Raquel Santos, manager of community engagement at Prospera. \u201cIt\u2019s fantastic to see our community come together, celebrate, and have fun. The event has so much to offer, and we really welcome these opportunities to be involved and make connections.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey\u2019s Canada Day event draws more than 80K people Published 1:00 pm Thursday, July 2, 2026 Surrey\u2019s July…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-777014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014","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=777014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}