It's Esquimalt's annual Bucaneer Days this weekend, with pirates a-plenty plundering the municipality. Tomorrow morning we'll be treated to "Wakey Wakey" as a firetruck and town crier cruise through the streets calling everyone to the pancake breakfast (five bucks! What a bargain!). The parade will start at 10:30 winding from Dominion Street along Esquimalt Road, just past the Plaza. Kiddo will be in the parade for the first time, with her schoolmates.
Esquimalt float from 2005 paradeUnfortunately, the fate of the event is in the air for next year. Esquimalt council has said that the
Archie Browning Centre, which is at the heart of the celebrations, will be closed later this year, as the upkeep is becoming too expensive. This saddens me, though in theory it will be replaced with an extension of the Town Square that they began with the new City Hall and Library a few years ago.
