Windsor's Canada 150 Parade attracted thousands.
A larger than normal parade took to the streets Saturday morning.
People from all over Windsor-Essex took over the sidewalks on Wyandotte St. E. from Devonshire Rd to Glengary Park, turning it into a sea of red and white.
Spectators begin to gather on Wyandotte St. E. near Kildare St. for Windsor's Canada Day Parade Saturday July 1. (Photo by AM800's Gord Bacon)
LaSalle native Tara Banner made this year's parade her ninth straight.
"We look forward to this every year, we have some family down from California that are American and they're here to celebrate 150 years, it's great," says Banner.
The parade also brought a few people home to take it all in.
Susan Hodgins is a Windsor native living in Long Beach. She returned home from California to attend today's parade.
"It's stunning, I'm excited, my kids are excited, and you can just feel that national pride," she says.
Hodgins says the highlight of the parade was the RCMP and the bagpipes, "we actually got a picture with my children and an actual Mountie."
Mayor Drew Dilkens walked the length of Wyandotte St. with the parade, and he says it was quite the turn out this year.
Spectators begin to gather on Wyandotte St. E. near Devonshire Rd. for Windsor's Canada Day Parade Saturday July 1. (Photo by AM800's Gord Bacon)
"It's the largest Canada Day parade that I think we've seen in a long long time, the streets were just jam packed," Dilkens says.
Windsorites gathered at Festival Plaza to sing O'Canada before enjoy a Canada Day cake after the parade.