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BC Highland Games

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B.C. Highland Games and Scottish Festival
GenreHighland games
DatesJune 19, 20 & 21, 2020
Location(s)Lafarge Lake Park, Coquitlam, BC.
Years active1931-present
WebsiteBCHighlandGames.com

The B.C. Highland Games is the second oldest continually running Highland Games in British Columbia, Canada. The games are run by the BC Highland Games Organizing Committee as a program of the United Scottish Cultural Society of Vancouver. The 2020 Games will be held at Town Centre Park on June 19-20, 2020 in Coquitlam.

The BC Highland Games is a traditional highland games, with competitive athletics, music and dancing. The Games include Scottish heavy events (caber tossing), pipe bands and solo piping competitions, the Vancouver Championship Highland Dancing, whisky school, cultural workshops, Scottish Clan displays, Scottish country dancing, Celtic artisans, kids activities, stock dog sheep herding, live Celtic entertainment, beer garden and massed pipe bands at end of day.

Traditional events include:

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