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Celebrating Canada’ Ss birinday’ was a real
blast in Terrace while Kitimat residents —

really had something to parade about. In

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KABAM| ‘The Terrace Centennial Lions

Club set off about 21 blasts from the arena
‘hill’ Thursday to mark Canada’s 115 bir-
thday. Meanwhile, Jennifer and Jacquelyn

Irvine with dad,” Len,

In Kitimat were

waving flags fo flag ‘wavers on floats during
the parade. Later everyone converged on
the Lower City Centre parking lot area for a

fun time. More. inside.

‘Some | called P.E. tT. a dictator but most people celebrated our birthday

A ‘variety of | political
protests made their mark
on Dominion: Day
celebrations’ across the
_ country Thursday, but most '

~. Canadians were content: to.

enjoy a day off, buoyed,
-pethaps, ‘by ‘the brilliant
sunshine that bleased most

of the country. M
Protests: ‘weren't in
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who atlended an estimated ‘

3,000 celebrations acrosé the
country, where. the main.

concerns seemed: to. be

getting a hot. dog, an-ice °
‘cream - “cone, a: boitle ‘of.
gunscreen or a view of one”
ce hundreds. of fireworks.

plays. . -

a) Ottawa, where the very
“Name of the day. tias been”
~ the sotiree of controversy - _

Progressive ‘Conservatives

"wishing: to retain -the name
- Dominion. Day. ‘and the-
, government: * wantliig © to
change it to Canada Day —-
‘the celebrations got off toa
Pocky start...

_ A telephoned bomb threal .

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caused. ofticiats to clear-the .
Centre Block of Parliament
for: about. two hours. No
bomb was found. .-...

By the time O Canada wis’
‘sung by a noon-hour crowd

of about 110,000; a scheduled
ringing of the Peace Tower

Carillon, whieh has. been’

silent for about two” years

‘for renovations, was can-

celled.

In Montreal, a group of
English-speaking | Quebes_.
cers held a parade to’ oppose
the. Quebec: independence’

“movement. Shouting “Vive

~ le Canada --libre,”” -rally~
‘organizer Roopzarine Singh
called on the 800 mM spectators -

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to fi ight - “the forces: of

narrow nationalism that
‘threaten to engulf Us as a
. nation. aan :
The annual parade) was
“much larger than the first
‘ene otganized ‘by Singh ‘in.
_1978, three years after the ["

Parti Quebecois swept into
power, when he led ¢ a amall

: motorcade. -
Pro-separatis! forces algo .

were active. in Montreal,
where more than 100
members ‘of the St. Jean

Baptiste’ society ‘fueled: a,

Dominion Day bonfire with
an eftigy of Prime Minister
Trudeau and several
hundred copies of the new

_ is’ a 77-cent. dollar,”

: Canadian Constitution.

~“The price of federalism

demonstrators cried while

. staging a mock funeral on
; the way.to acity park where

the -

‘newspaper,

the fire was ignited, .

Copies of the Montreal
Gazette, the city’s only
English-language daily’
‘also were.
burned during the protest

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- but police sald the
_ demonstration was calm.

Two communities also
-had complaints against the

federal government for .

fireworks displaya, ©

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In Yellowknife, - ‘Mayor

“Mike. Ballantyne resigned
- himself to. accepting the

- fireworks, even though
-. there was too much light at .

12:30 a,m.to make them
clearly visibte.
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