The opening ceremonies for The Forks National Historic Site… The photographs in the series are out of sequence to the order of events. A slide show will play below, but to see the captions you will have to scroll through the images. As always, I welcome comments or additional information on the photographs.

 

 

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Jake Epp and Bill Norrie at the Forks, Gil Savoie is the cameraman in the background

Jake Epp , Bill Norrie and Gerald Ducharme, Gil Savoie is the cameraman in the background

Arriving at the Forks in a York boat

Historic interpreters

Winston Wuttanee and Ilena Zaramba

Crowd and Historic interpreters

Crowd standing for Oh Canada

Historical interpreters and crowd standing for Oh Canada

Historical interpreters

Larry Fisher, musician

Winston Wuttanee and Ilena Zaramba

Pat Joyal, Denis Connelly and Monique Lacoste

Crowd at performance

Crowd at performance

Participants from the Folk Arts Council

Participants from the Folk Arts Council

Participants from the Folk Arts Council

Participants from the Folk Arts Council

Winston Wuttanee and Ilena Zaramba

Winston Wuttanee and Ilena Zaramba

Historical interpreter

Historical interpreter

Crowd at performance, Brion Whitford, film maker back center

Denis Connelly

Arrival of the York boat

Arrival of the York boat, Jim Beaulieu on right

Jake Epp, Federal Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources, Hon. Gerald Ducharme MB Minister of Urban Affairs . Winnipeg Mayor Bill Norrie, Trudy Cowan, Jim Beaulieu, ? and Jim Carr  MLA.

Brion Whitford, film maker

Platform guests

Platform guests

Pipe band

Pipe band

Marshalling area, Jim Lewis on right

Marshalling area, Dorothy Dobbie and Jim Lewis center left and right

L. to r. Magnus Eliasson and Jim Beaulieu

Marshalling area, Gerald Ducharme on left

Marshalling area, Native dance group

Marshalling area, pipe banc

Marshalling area, Folk Arts Council participants

Marshalling area, Folk Arts Council participants

Entry procession

Platform guests

Historical interpreters

Performers

Platform guests

Historical interpreters

Historical interpreters