Celebrations to mark the 100th anniversary of the annual Grand Falls-Windsor Labour Day parade have been amended to reflect the new reality under COVID-19.
The town, founded in the early part of the last century largely due to the local pulp and paper industry and mill, has hosted a Labour Day parade every year since 1920, except 1962.
Federation of Labour president Mary Shortall is in Grand Falls-Windsor for this weekend’s centennial celebrations. She says they will still be marking the occasion, albeit virtually, adding that the traditional parade won’t be possible this year.
Instead, a Labour Day event will be held in the parking lot outside the Grand Falls-Windsor Heritage Society building. Shortall says a series of speakers are lined up, including Heritage Society volunteer Ron Smith who will discuss the history of the annual parade and the town’s connections to the labour movement.
The Federation of Labour will livestream the event Monday morning starting at 10:30.