Show at a glance

Feb 26, 2006

Program

• Introduction of Vancouver Mayor
• “O Canada”
• Flag Handover Ceremony
• “Come Play With Us” 

Feature Performers

• Ben Heppner
• Avril Lavigne

Honoured Participants

• His Worship Sam Sullivan, Mayor of the City of Vancouver
• Chief Gibby Jacob

• Four Host First Nations Chiefs:

  • Chief Leonard Andrew of the Lil’wat (lill-watt) Nation
  • Chief Ernest Campbell of the Musqueam (muss-kwee-um) Nation
  • Chief Bill Williams of the Squamish (squwa-mish) Nation
  • Chief Leah George-Wilson of the Tsleil-Waututh (tss-layl-wha-tooth) Nation

Performers

• Selected dancers and performers from the Greater Vancouver area
• Members of Ecole Nationale de Cirque, Les 7 doigts de la main and Cirque du Soleil
  

Music

• “O Canada,” Canada’s national anthem composed by Calixa Lavallée in 1880 in Montreal
• Original music composed and arranged by Vancouver composer Paul Airey, performed by Vancouver musicians
• “Who Knows,” written by Avril Lavigne and Chantal Kreviazuk; performed by Avril Lavigne

Four Host First Nations

• First Nations, Inuit and Métis are three distinct groups of Aboriginal or First peoples in Canada who trace their ancestry to the original habitants of North America.
• The Four Host First Nations – Lil’wat, Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh – are the First Nations on whose traditional and shared traditional territories the 2010 Games will be held.
• Traditional Territory refers to the original hunting and trapping ground of the First Peoples.
• For the first time in Olympic history, First Nations people are formal partners with an organizing committee for the planning and hosting of an Olympic Games. VANOC is committed to achieving unprecedented Aboriginal participation in the planning and hosting of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
  

Related Content

Come Play With Us
The Flag Handover Ceremony
Credits and Special Thanks
Download the complete broadcasters’ colour commentary (PDF, 1.2 MB)