Victoria Classic Boat Festival - Victoria Times Colonist
Festival is back for 2022 after a two-year absence. It typically attracts about 100 wooden classic boats and 10,000 people.
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Festival is back for 2022 after a two-year absence. It typically attracts about 100 wooden classic boats and 10,000 people.
Deputy Fire Chief Dan Wood described the vehicle owner as “pretty disappointed but optimistic” about the damage to the 1932 Ford Deuce Coupe.
One less reason to visit downtown It wasn’t long ago that Victoria had many festivals and events in the downtown core. We used to enjoy Luminara, but it was cancelled because there was too much damage to Beacon Hill Park. It’s hard to imagine it damaged the park any more than campers. I used to go to the buskers festival every year. It was fantastic, but then the downtown business association took it over and when my friend and I attended, there was no seating anymore. You had to sit on the concrete or stand. I never attended that event again.
VICTORIA -- Victoria's world-renowned Northwest Deuce Days car event is coming to an end, its founder announced on social media. The event, which brought in hundreds of classic cars and thousands of visitors to the region every three years will not be returning to the Garden City. "A big thank you to Victoria for all of the bike lanes, Northwest Deuce Days is history," said event creator Al Clark in a social media post earlier this week. "After 21 years of hosting the event we have decided to call it quits. Thanks to everyone that supported it," he wrote. Clark told CTV News that the...
The show was hosted by Al Clark, who had turned his passion into a successful business, creating sought-after hot rods in his Fairfield garage since 1966. He announced the event’s cancellation on social media and spent all day Wednesday on the phone explaining why. “I wanted to go out on a high note. Although it was successful, organizing it was a lot of work. It takes a team of us two years of planning and six months of full-time work just before the date,” said Clark, 75. “It could very well be the city’s largest spectator gathering — and everything is free.”