CENTENNIAL EVENTS
‘ The Biggest Crowds Excluding Royal drives, i the city’s biggest-ever • crowds attended events con- ! nected with the provincial • centennial celebrations in ’ 1950-51. An estimated 1 100,000 watched the fire- • works display at South , Hagley Park on February i 15, 1951, and five days later, , 150,000 people saw the ■ floral pageant.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31088, 17 June 1966, Page 35 (Supplement)
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52CENTENNIAL EVENTS Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31088, 17 June 1966, Page 35 (Supplement)
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