Hundreds join Ladysmith Canada Day celebrations<\/p>\n
Published 5:00 pm Sunday, July 12, 2026<\/p>\n
Ladysmith celebrated Canada\u2019s 159th birthday, last Wednesday, July 1, in a traditional Ladysmith way \u2013 with family events, music, good food, cake and most of all, together at the town\u2019s crown jewel, Transfer Beach Park.<\/p>\n
The overcast sky, looking like impending rain, didn\u2019t dampen the hundreds of spectators who came out to have fun.<\/p>\n
The park itself was buzzing with activity with most of the noise coming from the children participating in the games and activities being put on by the town\u2019s parks staff. Children and parents enjoyed tunnel crawls, bean bag tossing, and ring toss among other things.<\/p>\n
There was also a variety of community groups, such as Ladysmith Search and Rescue volunteers, Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue, Emergency Management Cowichan, Ladysmith Resources Centre, the Multi-Cultural Society and many others set-up in information kiosks around the park.<\/p>\n
The local RCMP, with help from the Nanaimo 529 bicycle protection volunteers, had a tent featuring the 529 program. Project 529 is a free, digital bike registration and recovery system used globally that allows bike owners to register their bike\u2019s serial number and photos to deter theft and recover stolen property.<\/p>\n
The party kicked off at 9 a.m. with a pancake breakfast, put on by the Kinsmen club with local member of parliament, Tamara Kronis, helping to fry sausages. The breakfast had a steady lineup all morning.<\/p>\n
Starting the \u2018official\u2019 part of the celebration, the Doctors of Rock \u2019n\u2019 Roll band from Nanaimo, played \u2018O Canada\u2019 under the clam-shell tent at the Amphitheatre. Mayor Deena Beeston welcomed all the spectators and invited Stz\u2019uminus Chief John Elliott and council to join her and invited members of Ladysmith council to join as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just a year ago we were waiting to see what the tariffs had in store for us and we\u2019re still here,\u201d Beeston told the gathering. <\/p>\n
\u201cToday we found out that CUSMA will not be extended. That\u2019s OK, because we are still the true north strong and free. We managed then and we\u2019ll manage now. I see everyone here today and thank you for coming to celebrate Canada Day in the best place ever. Thank you all for joining us, have a wonderful day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elliott spoke and thanked everyone for attending and being part of celebration.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur community is Ladysmith\u2019s closest neighbour and we are strengthening our futures together, creating opportunities and friendships for years to come,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Following the opening remarks the mayor and two RCMP members helped cut two huge birthday cakes from the Old Town Bakery and handed it out to the crowd. The Doctors of Rock \u2019n\u2019 Roll continued to play for the hundreds of spectators while families and children danced on the deck of the amphitheatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds join Ladysmith Canada Day celebrations Published 5:00 pm Sunday, July 12, 2026 Ladysmith celebrated Canada\u2019s 159th birthday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-798036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798036","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=798036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}