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Four-day Canada Day bash among Toronto events to mark Canada's 150th birthday

New Year's Eve, Canada Day and events across Toronto will be used to mark Canada's 150th birthday.

Thestar.com
May 10, 2016
By David Rider

Toronto will throw Canada an $8.4-million sesquicentennial celebration including special New Year’s Eve party, four-day Canada Day festival and people “reaffirming” their citizenship alongside new Canadians taking the oath.

The city is on the hook for half the cost of the 150th birthday events, a city report says, while the provincial and federal governments and “external sources” will be asked to pay the rest. Events will happen across the city but most will be downtown.

“While the planning horizon for Canada's 150th is extremely short, Toronto will have a visible and vibrant program in 2017,” states the city staff report released Tuesday.

It includes:

This will be Toronto’s second sesquicentennial celebration - the city marked its own 150th birthday in 1984 with celebrations and a black squirrel mascot named Sesqui.