Two women dressed as suffragettes hold a Canadian flag during the Canada Day parade in Kitimat, July 1, 2016. The theme for the parade marked one hundred years of the woman’s vote in Canada. (Robin Rowland) The parade began in heavy rain. (Robin Rowland) Mayor Phil Germuth wields water guns during the parade. Everyone […]
This is one of the my favourite photographs. The Bluenose II sailing off Sydney, Nova Scotia, on July 11, 1984, thirty-one years ago today. I like it because the Bluenose hasn’t set the ships tops’ls and that’s something that you don’t see that often at least in most photographs After a controversial $19.5 million refit, […]
The winning float in the 2015 Kitimat Canada parade from the Community Supper Club. (Robin Rowland) Staff Sergeant Phil Harrison who is retiring from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police leads the Canada Day parade. (Robin Rowland) Kitimat Fire and Rescue. (Robin Rowland) Kitimat Marine Rescue Society (Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue SAR 63) […]
July 1, 2013, marked Kitimat’s 60th anniversary, so the theme was “Pioneer Days.” The float from the Riverlodge Summer programs took first prize for best float. (Robin Rowland) A girl celebrates Canada Day at the beginning of the parade. (Robin Rowland) The RCMP and other first responders lead the parade. (Robin Rowland) A boy […]
The Royal Canadian Legion and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police lead the Canada Day parade in Kitimat, BC, July 1, 2012. (Robin Rowland) The Kitimat Marine Rescue Society’s Snowflake Responder in the Canada Day Parade. (Robin Rowland) Bechtel, which is building the Rio Tinto Alcan Kitimat Modernization Project had a small fleet of golf carts […]
It was unseasonably cold and rainy in Kitimat on July 1, 2011, as the Royal Canadian Legion lead the Canada Day Parade. The firefighters follow the Legion in the parade, not only because it is a place of honour, but in case there is an urgent call, the front of the parade makes […]
How do you photograph wildlife without leaving the house? Live where the wildlife comes to you. After I took early retirement from my job as Photo Editor for CBC News, some of my friends were wondering why I chose to move back to my home town of Kitimat, British Columbia (on the northwest coast). There […]