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CANADA'S LARGEST seaport
celebrates itself this weekend with
the annual Port Day activities,
being beld on Saturday, May 7.

“Port Day bas been a tradition
for many years.” explained Joy
Gornall, corporate events coordina-
tor with the Vancouver Port
Corporation (VPC).

The Port Corporation started by
inviting the public.to come to the
Ballantyne terminal in Vancouver
lor harbor tours. The event has
since expanded to include the entire

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Marine communily, she said.

“ECS an opportunity to give our
shareholders, the general public. a
close-up look at our port.”

Narrated tours around the inner
harbor afford peopte the chance ta
geta closer look at the 29 terminals
where woods are foaded and
unloaded from ships that pass
through the port.

As well, displays and demon-
stralions at Waterfront Park will
provide information about port
activides. Members of the marine
community will be there to answer
questions and explain waterfront
operations,

For example, people may won-
der about the pile of sulphur they

see cach lime they pass over the
Lions Gate Bridge. Port Day is the
chance for them to find out where it
comes from, how it gets there and
where it goes, said Gornall.

“You will find the answers to alt
of that at Port Day.”

The North Shore portion of the
day's activities are centred in
Waterfront Park, next to the SeaBus
terminal and the Lonsdale Quay.
Additional activities happen al the
facific Marine Training Institute
and the BC Rail buildings, both of
which border Waterfreat Park.

Canada’s tade with 90 countries
moves through Vancouver's port.

Primarily an export port. raw

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