{"id":2452,"date":"2012-06-28T16:15:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T21:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2013-04-29T14:37:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T19:37:59","slug":"help-us-celebrate-canada-day-across-york-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/2012\/06\/28\/help-us-celebrate-canada-day-across-york-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Help us celebrate Canada Day across York Region!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kanata_BlogImage.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2453\" title=\"Canada Day 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kanata_BlogImage.png\" alt=\"Canada Day 2012\" width=\"450\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kanata_BlogImage.png 450w, https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Kanata_BlogImage-300x177.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are so many ways to celebrate on this July 1. As Canada celebrates its 145<sup>th<\/sup> birthday, Markham will be celebrating its first day as a city, after recently announcing that it will be making the transition from being a town\u00a0to being a city. We\u2019re happy for Markham, and proud to be part of the urban transformation. To get a glimpse of Markham\u2019s future, see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vivanext.com\/highway7_markham\" target=\"_blank\">Highway 7 East rapidway information<\/a>, read all about the <a href=\"http:\/\/downtownmarkham.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Downtown Markham<\/a> development area, or travel along Highway 7 East to see the new centre-lane vivastations being built.<\/p>\n<p>We have our own plans for Canada Day \u2013 in Newmarket, the vivaNext team will be out celebrating Canada\u2019s birthday at the annual Kanata Day Festival at Fairy Lake (<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.ca\/maps?q=Water+Street,+Newmarket,+ON&amp;hl=en&amp;ll=44.050907,-79.454284&amp;spn=0.011027,0.026157&amp;sll=44.051567,-79.455083&amp;sspn=0.001386,0.00327&amp;oq=wter+street+newmarket&amp;hnear=Water+St,+Newmarket,+York+Regional+Municipality,+Ontario&amp;t=m&amp;z=16\" target=\"_blank\">map<\/a>). Start off your morning with a pancake breakfast at the Newmarket Community Centre &amp; Lions Hall (200 Doug Duncan Drive &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.ca\/maps?q=200+Doug+Duncan+Drive,+Newmarket,+ON&amp;hl=en&amp;sll=49.891235,-97.15369&amp;sspn=42.630548,78.837891&amp;hnear=200+Doug+Duncan+Dr,+Newmarket,+Ontario+L3Y+3Y9&amp;t=m&amp;z=16\" target=\"_blank\">map<\/a>) from 8am until noon. Afterwards, join us at Fairy Lake, where there will also be all sorts of family fun including inflatable bouncers, an extreme bike demonstration, and live entertainment. On Bayview Parkway at George Richardson Park (<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.ca\/maps?q=George+Richardson+Park,+Newmarket,+ON&amp;hl=en&amp;sll=44.046234,-79.457073&amp;sspn=0.011537,0.019248&amp;hq=George+Richardson+Park,+Newmarket,+ON&amp;t=m&amp;z=15\" target=\"_blank\">map<\/a>), fireworks will begin at dusk.<\/p>\n<p>So what are you doing for Canada Day? Can we count on seeing you out and about in York Region?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many ways to celebrate on this July 1. As Canada celebrates its 145th birthday, Markham will be celebrating its first day as a city, after recently announcing that it will be making the transition from being a town\u00a0to being a city. We\u2019re happy for Markham, and proud to be part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[47,6,7,9],"class_list":["post-2452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-events","tag-markham","tag-viva","tag-vivanext","tag-york-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2804,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions\/2804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}