Vancouver’s Vaisakhi parade returned on Saturday for the first time since 2019, with hundreds of thousands of people out on the streets celebrating the Sikh festival marked every April, one gurdwara official estimated.
The parade, which went through many streets in South Vancouver and the historic Punjabi Market district, had been off the streets since 2019 due to pandemic restrictions.
Festival organizers estimated up to 300,000 people were in attendance Saturday. (Ben Nelms/CBC)
The event marks the creation of the order of the Khalsa in 1699 — a defining moment in Sikh history, which gave the Sikh faith its final form.
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