Santa Claus waves to the crowd at the Hyack Christmas Parade of Lights on December 6. (Queenie Chan/The Epoch Times)
VANCOUVER—Santa Claus arrived early this year to take part in the 22 annual Hyack Christmas Parade of Lights on December 6 in historical New Westminster, British Columbia, a city Queen Victoria named after her favorite part of London.
As Christmas Day draws ever closer, the jolly holiday atmosphere grows, and there was no shortage of it at the Hyack parade. Santa Claus joined the cheerful crowd, reminding the children of his upcoming arrival on Christmas Eve.
Falun Dafa practitioners demonstrate their peaceful exercises on a colourful float. (Fany Qiu/The Epoch Times)
The streets were lined with hundreds of people who turned out for the parade, which included marching bands playing rousing Christmas music, clowns, stilt walkers, mascots, and numerous shimmering floats bedecked with candy canes, garlands and reindeers.
