Stoney Creek Canada Flag Day Parade

May 29, 2010, 2:00 pm

Last updated- May 26, 2010

In 2010, the community of Stoney Creek, Ontario will be hosting the 41st Stoney Creek Canada Flag Day. The festival, started in 1969, honours Canada’s internationally famous maple leaf flag. This local event is unusual in that it takes place a month before the more traditional Canada Day, and that it focuses on a combination of pride in the Canada Flag and local civil spirit.

The 2010 parade runs on King Street, Stoney Creek, from Gray's Road to the Community Park (and arena). There are 12 bands confirmed for the 2010 parade, the most ever, as well as a number of other musical entries and over 60 participating groups. Particiapting bands include the York Lions Steel Band, the Tophats marching band, the Preston Scout House marching band, and the Toronto Signals marching band. The parade is free to the public.

Click HERE to participate.

Last opportunity to enter is 4 pm, May 14, 2010.

FACE PAINTING

There will be free Face Painting for children on King Street at the Stoney Creek Legion, 12 King St. E., from 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

LEGION BBQ

The Stoney Creek Legion will also be hosting a BBQ at the same time.

LIONS CLUB FOOD DRIVE

SC Lions Club runs a food drive for the Food Bank through the parade. Please bring a non perishable food item with you to the parade and help support their drive.

WARNING- Flag Day does not sponsor any other donation collections on the parade route, EXCEPT for bucket collection for the Flag Day parade itself, which is carried out by accredited members of local service clubs like the Optimist Club of Stoney Creek. Be wary of any other attempts to solicit funds. On two separate occasions in the last three years, fraudulent groups attempted to collect funds along the parade route. Please report any collections attempts to Hamilton Police Services personnel along the parade route.

ROAD CLOSURES

King Street and all the intersections between Gray's Road and Wardrope Ave. (Dawson, New Mountain, Elm, Mountain, Lake, First, etc.) will be closed from until the end of the parade.

Please do not park on King Street on Saturday afternoon. King Street will also be closed all the way to Centennial Parkway, as Police Services will not allow traffic to go east on King Street from the Centennial parkway intersection during the road closure.. Local traffic may, at the discretion of Police Services, turn left from Battlefield Drive, and go west on to King Street to leave the neighbourhood during the parade period.

Gray's Road will also be closed from 12:00 pm from the Queenston Road to King Street, as will the intersections along that route (Collegiate Ave, Passmore St, etc.). Parade participants should get on to Gray’s Road for set-up from the north (Queenston Rd.) end.

SALFLEET LIBRARY

The Gray’s Road closure includes the access to Saltfleet Library. The Library will be open during the road closure, but Library patrons are advised to turn into Fiesta Mall and park at the Fiesta Mall during the road closure hours. Police will be not be permitting access to Gray’s Road from Queenston Road, except for parade set-up from 12:00 - 3:30 pm.

Road closures will begin at the discretion of the Police Services any time between 12:00 noon and 4:00 pm. Except for Gray’s Road, which closes early for parade set-up, the roads are not usually closed until just before the parade starts (usually around 1:30 pm) but residents and visitors are advised that the roads can be closed without warning any time during the posted hours if Police Services wishes to.

Goals of Stoney Creek Canada Flag Day are:

1. To involve citizens in an event which promotes the Canadian flag, fellowship, and pride in Stoney Creek.

2. To increase public awareness of the Canadian flag

3. To provide education about the Canadian flag and its inception

4. To promote the use of the Canadian flag within the community

5. To celebrate the heritage of Stoney Creek, through links with such community activities as the Battle of Stoney Creek.

Royal Canadian Legion Activities

Fish Fry

When: Friday, May 28, 2010

Where: 12 King St. E.

905-662-4171 for information.

Flag Day Sponsors Thank-you

When: May 25, 2010, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Where: Old Powerhouse Restaurant, 21 Jones St.

Website: http://www.theoldpowerhouse.com/

Invitees, please RSVP 905-664-4000.

Stoney Creek Community Park, 1923

Click here for past Canada Flag Day Parade information.

THANK YOU TO OUR 2010 FLAG DAY SUPPORTERS

SILVER	GOLD	PLATINUM	DIAMOND
Multi Area Developments- Aldo DeSantis	Battlefield Optimist Club	Earl Paddock Transportation	Heritage Green Community Trust
Optimist Club of Stoney Creek	Scotiabank- Stoney Creek (Queenston and Green)	Stoney Creek Lions Club	City of Hamilton’s Community Partnership Program
RPR Environmental Inc.	Donald V Brown Funeral Home	Taylor Chrysler Dodge
Smith’s Funeral Home	Stoney Creek News	Robert and Joyce Brown
Bertam and Barry Insurance	Stoney Creek BIA
Maria and Steven Pearson	Old Powerhouse Restaurant
BMO Queenston Rd.- Stoney Creek	Stoney Creek Chamber of Commerce
Royal Bank- Stoney Creek - Queenston & Lake	TD Canada Trust – King St.
Village Green Denture Clinic
Chestnut Tree Foot Care and Orthotics
Span-Nation Transport Services
Kinsman Club of Stoney Creek
Durward Jones Barkwell & Co
McHugh, Mowat ,Whitmore, Ionico, and MacPherson Law Firm
Stoney Creek Orthotic Centre
Hager Cerello Chartered Accountants
Kiwanis Club of Stoney Creek
Richard P Startek Barristers and Solicitors
Lucky Bear / L Marshall
Royal Canadian Legion Battlefield Branch
Cambridge Insurance Brokers Ltd.
The Attic Pizza Parlour
Magnetsigns
Steel Cut Industries
Avenue Hair Design & Esthestics
Bochek Fabricating
Private donation in memory of Ruth Cuming
Merry Maids of Hamilton

Contact Us: Please contact 905-662-1604 or email mgemmell@sympatico.ca for more information about Stoney Creek Canada Flag Day 2010.