Who doesn’t like a parade?
This year’s parade theme is Elbows Up Canada!
Let’s build team spirit and come together to celebrate our beautiful country! Show your Canadian pride—wear your favourite Canada shirt or costume, wave your flags high, and deck yourself out with red and white temporary tattoos. Get creative and design your floats to honour the maple leaf and celebrate the unity in our diversity.
We hope each and every one of you will seize the opportunity to be part of this exciting event! Our organising team is hard at work to make this a great parade. The parade always brings out a big crowd of Friends, Neighbors, Businesses, all showing their local pride along the 45-minute parade route.
Start Location: Louis-Riel High School in Blackburn Hamlet, Ottawa, ON
End Location: Blackburn Community Center at 190 Glen Park Drive in Blackburn Hamlet, Ottawa, ON
Date: Saturday, June 7, 2025
Hours: Saturday 10:00 am
Ticket Info: Free!
Please bring a non-perishable food donation that will be picked up by volunteers walking on either side of the parade route. All items will be donated to our local Blackburn Hamlet Food Bank.
The Blackburn Hamlet Funfair Bike Parade! 🚲
Kids, let your creativity shine as you decorate your bikes in this year’s parade theme!
Kids 10 and under are invited to meet at Louis-Riel at 9:45 AM (right before the parade starts). Prizes will be award for best bike (10 and under) and best trike!
Past Participants
- Blackburn Shoppes Dental Centre
- Metro
- Blackburn Hamlet Guiding
- Electric Vehicle Council of Ottawa
- Ottawa Fire Services
- Ottawa Police Service Pipe Band
- Ottawa Public Library
- MP Marie-France Lalaonde
- Councillor Laura Dudas
- And more!
