Canadian International Dragon Boat Festival
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The <entity_0> or Concord Pacific Dragon Boat Festival takes place every June on the waters and shoreside of False Creek in <entity_1>, British Columbia, <entity_3>. The Concord Pacific Dragon Boat Festival is a legacy of Expo 86, where <entity_1>'s Chinese-Canadian community introduced the traditional annual Chinese Duanwu Festival (summer solstice) to <entity_3> as a cultural outreach program to share Chinese culture with the city's multi-cultural population. The dragon boat <entity_2> was created to promote sport and Chinese culture, and a meeting place for <entity_1>'s culturally diverse population to build intercultural harmony and understanding. The <entity_2> has grown to become one of <entity_1>'s largest family summer events, attracting paddlers ranging in age from high school students to 'grand dragons' in their 80s, and visitors including families of all ages and backgrounds. The City of <entity_1> Centennial Commission endorsed the plan for an inaugural <entity_2> as part of the official civic anniversary festivities. In <entity_4>, the Chinese Cultural Centre of <entity_1> organized and hosted the first authentic dragon boat <entity_2> in North America, and invited prominent community leaders to be patrons. Part of this group of founding volunteers includes David See-Chai Lam and Milton K. Wong, who would later reorganize the <entity_1> Festival as the <entity_0> in 1988. In recent years, international teams have returned to <entity_1> as the <entity_2> has grown, with teams participating from around the world, including from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the US, Great Britain, Australia, Singapore, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, and many other countries from around the world. In 1996, 10 years after <entity_1>'s first race, the 1st IDBF Club Crew World Championships was convened on False Creek during the <entity_2>. The <entity_2>'s producers, the <entity_0> Society also operates a series of races and runs Dragon Zone Paddling Club out of Creekside Paddling Centre and Creekside Community Centre.
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