In my little city of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, we have an annual street parade to celebrate Old Home Week.
Old Home Week is basically a way to pay homage to the homesteading heritage of the Island. There is a traveling carnical in town, an agricultural exhibition, 4H events and then at the end of the week the parade and the Gold Cup and Saucer harness race.
I don't really follow horse racing much, but I do know that of all of the harness racing events in Canada, this one has the largest purse, so it's a big deal for such a small rural place.
Anywho, back to the parade.....so like I was saying, it's a big deal here. So much so that everything shuts down for the hour or so it takes for the parade to pass by. The mall I work in being no exception.
I won't bore you with typical parade type pics, but I thought you all might want to take a look at the pipebands that marched by.

ok...the first band was from Belfast
they are from a place even more rural than Charlottetown. Despite it's small size, Belfast has being holding a small highland games in it's village for quite some time. This year the celebrated the 200th anniversary of Scottish settlers to the area. You can read a bit about it here





the next pipeband to march by, fresh from their 4th place (grade3) win in Scotland, was the band from the College of Piping in Summerside, Prince Edward Island. I really like the look of their uniform. ALL black, except the millennium tartan.






last, but certainly not least was an RCMP band from Halifax, Nova Scotia. To say they were awesome would be an understatement. So crisp, and so sharp. When they paraded by, it made my ears tear up.