Great ideas for a festive Canada Day

Celebrating Canada Day is something most of us look forward to. If you're wondering what to do this year, search through our best articles for great ideas. From traditional Canadian recipes to new and fun family crafts, we've got your Canada Day plans covered.

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Festive Canada Day Recipes
O Canada Cupcakes
Show your patriotic spirit with red and white iced cupcakes. Don't forget the flag. If you want maple leaves, pour melted red (candy) moulding wafers into moulds for chocolate.

Canada Day cake
Fireworks, friends and food. Throw a party for Canada Day and serve this special strawberry maple-leaf flag cake. Start with a 13- x 9-inch (3.5 L) sponge cake (recipe follows), or use your favourite recipe for white cake of that size, and completely cover it with whipped cream. Then form the outside red borders and distinctive maple leaf with sliced strawberries. Be sure to refrigerate the cake until sparkler time, then cut it and toast our birthday.

Canada Day Picnic Sandwich
Want something special to celebrate our country's birthday? Make Canada's best sandwich to put in your picnic hamper on any July 1. Simply hollow out a loaf of your favorite bread — we used round crusty loaf — and fill it with a truly delicious filling. The loaf can be transported to the picnic site in a cooler, then cut in wedges and served from a napkin lined basket.

Canadians share their favourite ways to drink whisky
Canadians love their whisky, and love to invent new ways to enjoy it. These eight tasty and unique whisky elixirs come from whisky lovers across Canada.

Canada Day menu for 8
Break out the red and white and show your true colours with an old-fashioned veranda party showcasing great-outdoors favourites – Buttermilk Fried Chicken, Red Potato and Radish Salad and Maple Leaf Sugar Cookies – and more.

Easy Canada Day barbecue for 8
We've designed this menu so you can bring out some of the food for the kids to enjoy at the beginning, such as the Grilled Vegetable and Noodle Salad, the romaine salad or whatever part of the mixed grill they like. Then there's still plenty of time left for you to relax with the adults and enjoy the rest of the menu.

We are Canadian: A special Canada Day menu for 12
Fire up the grill, it's our nation's birthday. Celebrate Canada Day with a menu of favourite Canadian foods.


Canada's best potato salad recipes
Potato salad recipes vary as far and wide as Canada itself. Here's a comprehensive list of potato salad recipes - each one equally fantastic - developed by The Canadian Living Test Kitchen. An irresistible summer indulgence, potato salad recipes combine fresh new potatoes with delicious herbs and seasonings. Our selections below include lightened-up potato salad recipes, trusted favourites plus new twists on plain old potato salad.


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