On Sunday, July 1st 2018,  Despite heat warning, hundreds came out for Parc-Ex Canada Day Celebration. While some neighbourhoods decided to cancel their festivities, Parc-exers gathered on Gare Jean-Talon Parc as planned.

It’s Canada’s biggest party with multicultural Canadian communities in Parc-Extension, Montreal. Thousands of people attended with their children dressed in red and white come on the lawns of the Place de Jean-Talon Station in front of Provigo, a super market near station Parc, on Sunday July 1st to celebrate the 151st Canada Day.

Flags of Canada floated as the local community sang the Canadian national anthem with the presence of many children.

A citizenship ceremony was held in collaboration with Immigration, Refugees and Citizens Canada. 51 new citizens from different countries had the chance to be sworn in on Canada Day. The ceremony was presided by Mr. John Walsh, Member of the Order of Canada. The President of the Ceremony was

accompanied by Mrs. Kettley Guerrier, Clerk of the Ceremony, and Miss Samiha Hossain, Master of the Ceremony.

Special guests were invited to welcome and congratulate new citizens. Speeches were delivered by Mr. Emmanuel Dubourg, Member of Parliament for Bourassa and Representative of the Honorable Ahmed D. Hussen, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada; Mrs. Giuliana Fumagalli, Mayor of the Borough of Villeray – Saint-Michel – Parc-Extension; Mr. Monir Hossain, President of the National Bangladeshi-Canadian Council (NBCC). Mr. George S. Guzmas, editor of Parc-Extension Nouvelles, was a special guest of the ceremony.

Citizenship candidates were sworn in and the guests reaffirmed their rights in both French and English and the new Canadians received their certificates, gifts and congratulations from the dignitaries and special guests of the event. Once the speeches were made, the bilingual national anthem was performed by Miss Ocean Go and the students of the Sargam Academy of Music.

It is a chance for us to show our pride and the origins of Canadian history to our generation of Canadians and the bridge link from the present to the future to unite multicultural and Canadian communities.

Host organization of Parc-Extension Canada Day Celebration-2018. The National Bangladeshi-Canadian Council was honored to receive a message from the Right Hon. Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada and Member of Parliament for Papineau, to congratulate the organization’s efforts to the local community in Parc-Extension and to highlight Parc-Extension Canada Day Celebration-2018.

Note that the National Bangladeshi – Canadian Council, an organization of the Parc-Ex community, is an official organization of the Government of Canada for the last 15 years, with the help of all of you, and NBCC is proud and thankful to everyone.