Today, February 15th is National Flag day in Canada. My post is about Stuart Sutton who lives in Holiday Park and had an idea to create a HUGE Canadian flag on the ice of Ellison Lake, the lake where our home is situated.
On February 13th he recruited some other residents in Holiday Park to help him lay out a one acre area to recreate the Canadian flag. They then proceeded to create it in just under 4 hours by a great deal of snow shoveling, a perfect likeness in perfect portion to our Canadian flag. The decision was made, due to environmental concerns to not paint the red into our flag. Instead the image was created with totally scraped ice along with snow on the ice to create the image.
This is Stu’s link on You Tube as to the process.
Our lake is directly on the approach to the Kelowna airport used by dozens of Westjet flights from all over Canada. We even have a flight attendant living in the park who supplied a few photos. Westjet was contacted and they replied that it would be a pleasure for them to have their pilots fly over and point out the flag created on our lake to the guests on board as they flew over.
Next thing we knew all the local media were on board and coming to take photos. Plus both CBC TV news and CTV news sent crews out to do videos today, the official flag day. Stuart took this flag day event to an entire different level by having over 100 Holiday Park residents come out onto the ice dressed in red ( if they could ) and carrying flags to wave at 1:00PM PST today. The TV cameras were rolling.
Sadly because we are directly in the flight path there is no drone photo.
Photo by someone in Holiday Park as he climbed the mountain near the lake.
So here I am on the Isla in Mexico shedding tears as I listened ( video below ) to the group sing our National anthem while on the ice as the jets flew over and the media recorded it all. What a great community Holiday Park is.
And in the middle of it all was my very special realtor being a part of it all. Her video of the event….
What a great day for the National Flag day in Canada, for Holiday Park and for my wonderful realtor Irina Mierzewski with Royal Lepage Kelowna who showed our home several times today.
Was a great day!
WOW, that’s so pretty & so appropriate; Nice !!
Happy Canadian Flag Day 🌺 🌿 🌼.
What a great idea. Very creative and good job on getting the proportions right with the Canadian maple leaf. Did it make you homesick? You could still change your mind 🙂