Zoom North a Success
September 24, 2020
The Ottawa Date Squares hosted their first (and hopefully last) Zoom North to the Capital virtual fly-in and it was a smashing success! Check it out.
Yes indeed, it was in 1995 that the Ottawa Date Squares first started dancing and it’s been a long and interesting journey from our humble beginnings to today.
The club’s history includes some pretty amazing events including being the only square dance club to ever dance on the floor of the house of commons, being the first club to incorporate a gay wedding into a fly-in’s activities and having won the bid to host the 2023 IAGSDC Convention!
We have all sorts of really fun activities lined up as part of this year’s fly-in to celebrate our club’s major milestone and we’ll be making announcements soon about party themes and specialty dances.
Veer North is not the first fly-in to be hosted by the Ottawa Date Squares.
Back in the spring of 1996 and and again in 1997 we hosted Chase The Bunny and danced in an old fashioned sugar shack deep in the Canadian woods. We enjoyed sleigh rides, maple taffy on the snow and a raucous Easter bonnet competition.
Later on, in the fall of 2003 and again in 2005, we hosted the Harvest Ball which was very widely attended.
We know that many of you who are reading this now were in attendance for some of these events and if that is the case, we hope that you took photos and are willing to share them with us for a surprise presentation during this year’s fly-in.
Please forward any photos you may have to our attention and let’s make this year’s walk down memory lane a really fun one for everyone.
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The Ottawa Date Squares hosted their first (and hopefully last) Zoom North to the Capital virtual fly-in and it was a smashing success! Check it out.
More details, including the theme, have been announced for Zoom North virtual fly-in on September 19.
Yes indeed, it was in 1995 that the Ottawa Date Squares first started dancing and it’s been a long and interesting journey from our humble beginnings to today. The club’s history includes some pretty amazing events including being the only square dance club to ever dance on the floor of
The early-bird pricing will be ending on March 1 so you only have a few short weeks to register for Veer North 2020 for the really low price of $95. This price includes a sumptuous buffet brunch at the famous Tucker’s Marketplace, a home-cooked (by our very own club members) potluck supper
The Ottawa Date Squares recently benefited from two dancers that moved here from Toronto Triangle Squares and one of them, Pat, is a graphic designer. He agreed to design a logo for our fly-in and the product of his endeavours is an outstanding logo. We think you’ll all agree so
Well here we are at the end of a successful fly-in with all sorts of fond memories and new friendships to cherish. We would like to say a heartfelt thank you to everyone who helped make this event a success including the callers (Gary, Barry, Mark and Marge), the Cornwall