What: ITALIAN DAY on The Drive
When: June 10, 2012
Where: From Venables to the Grandview cut on Commercial Drive
Why: Share the spirit, pride and tradition of the Italian community and its contributions to Vancouver
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Commercial Drive, the main street of the Grandview neighbourhood, is a retail andrestaurant-oriented street on the east side of Vancouver, British Columbia. The Drive, as the neighbourhood is universally known, is a wildly entertaining multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-sexual district with a reputation to match. In 1997, the alternative magazine
Utne Reader voted the Drive one of the fifteen hippest neighbourhoods in North America. For many years now, the Drive has been a first haven for many of the waves of immigrants - East European, South American, Caribbean, African - that arrive in Vancouver. The present cosmopolitan armosphere has evolved in the last two decades directly out of an Italian ethnic tradition, a quarter century older, so strong that even the local Post Office stamped its envelopes as from Little Italy." (Source: The Drive by Jak King, 2011)
Images from the 2012 Italian Day on Commercial Drive:
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| View of Commercial Drive on Italian Day |
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| Good Food at Italian Day on Commercial Drive |
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| Salted Fish Being Served During Italian Day |
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| Italian Day Smiles for the CBC |
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| Family Fun at Italian Day on Commercial Drive |
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| "Little Italy" Kids Singing |
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| Crowds Crossing 1st Avenue |
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| Commercial Drive Cowboy at Mintage |
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