Routes and road closures for Armed Forces Day- Pan Am torch

Beginning at 11 this morning, you are invited to North Bay’s waterfront at the Kiwanis Bandshell on Memorial Drive for the annual Canadian Armed Forces Day, featuring the Royal Canadian Air Force Snowbirds.

The celebrations will coincide with the arrival of the Pan Am Games Torch Relay. Approximately 25 area schools are scheduled to attend.

Schedule of events
8:00 a.m. Closure of Memorial Drive on the north end at Main Street and at the south end at Queen and Monk Streets
10:50 a.m. Students arrive at waterfront.
11:15 a.m. Sherbrooke Street is temporarily closed as military personnel prepares for parade.
11:40 a.m. Military parade starts.
11:50 a.m. MC welcomes all in attendance.
12:00 p.m. Parade arrives at waterfront.
12:06 p.m. Pan Am Games Torch Relay departs Hwy 17 at Gormanville Road.
12:30 p.m. Pan Am Games Torch Relay arrives for lighting of the cauldron.
12:45 p.m. Speeches begin.
1:15 p.m. Pan Am Games Torch Relay leaves the site
1:15 p.m. Royal Canadian Air Force Snowbirds demonstration begins
1:40 p.m. Snowbirds demonstration ends
4:00 p.m. Memorial Drive reopened to the public

Military Parade (11:40 a.m. – 12 noon)
Approximately 150 military personnel will march from City Hall at Shrebrooke Street to the Kiwanis Bandshell on Memorial Drive. Motorists are advised to expect short delays during this time.

The parade route is as follows:
• Sherbrooke Street to Main Street
• Main Street to Fraser Street
• Left on Fraser Street to Oak Street
• Oak Street to the Discovery North Bay Museum pedestrian underpass
• Right onto Memorial Drive to the front of the Bandshell

The Pan Am Torch Relay (12 noon – 12:30 p.m.; 1:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.)

A North Bay Police Service cruiser will lead the Pam Am Torch Relay and convoy of vehicles, which will begin at the corner of Hwy 17 and Gormanville Road and will head down Algonquin Avenue to Jane to the waterfront.

After the lighting of the cauldron, the torch will leave the waterfront and proceed through the pedestrian underpass to Ferguson Street, right on Main St, left on Fisher St, right onto the bypass.

Motorists are advised to expect short delays during this time as the torch progresses through the city.