2012 Calendar of Events
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Upcoming Events at Local Parks and Sites
From festivals and demonstrations to fitness boot camps and exhibits, there’s a lot going on at our local places!
Shaw TV: Experience the Unforgettable, Celebrate Our National Treasures
Country singer and outdoor enthusiast George Canyon will host this special feature
© Parks Canada
Join Parks Canada and host George Canyon, country singer and outdoor enthusiast, on Shaw TV and Shaw Direct, Channel 299. A Special Feature showcasing centennial celebrations of our national historic sites and national parks in Western Canada. Feel the beat of a powwow, try your hand at geo-caching or step inside a working lighthouse.
Broadcast dates:
- Saturday, April 28 at 4 pm PT
- Friday, May 11 at 12 pm PT
- Sunday, May 20 at 7:30 am PT
Visit www.parkscanada.gc.ca or call 1-888-773-8888 to plan your visit to Parks Canada’s special places!
Contest: Get to Know Program - Connect, create, celebrate!
Get to know your wild neighbours © Get to Know Program
DATE: April 8 -July 16, 2012
AGE: Youth 19 and under
THEME: Get to know your wild neighbours
Here’s an invitation to get outdoors, connect with your wild neighbours, and celebrate nature through the arts. Enter with art, writing, video, photograph, and music.
Providing young people with opportunities to spend more time outdoors is a priority of the Get to Know Program. This is particularly important in this day and age, as children continue to abandon outdoor experiences for those they can participate in from within the home. This detachment from nature, and resulting sedentary lifestyle, can have a negative effect on the development of children.
Enter at www.gettoknow.ca/.
Contest: My Parks Pass
Flash It and Get In Free! © My Parks Pass
Flash It and Get In Free! Flash your pass and get in free at more than 200 national parks, national historic sites, and national marine conservation areas across Canada.
If you're a Grade 8/Secondary 2 student, you'll get your "My Parks Pass" from your teacher in April so that you can visit over 200 Parks Canada locations for free. You have a full year to discover all that Canada has to offer at 42 national parks, 167 national historic sites and 4 national marine conservation areas across the country.
So your family doesn't feel left out, you can flash your pass for an instant discount on a daily family or group pass, too. You can also purchase a family/group Parks Canada Discovery Pass at a discounted rate. Treat your family to an adventure today!
By the way, the My Parks Pass is our gift to you, and only you can use it. Know the past. Enjoy the present. Protect the future. And most of all, have fun.
Teachers and home schooled students who were missed during the distribution can request a student kit through the Parks Canada National Information Service at 1-888-773-8888 or information@pc.gc.ca.