(14 Feb 2010)
1. Various of parade during Chinese New Year celebrations
2. Mid of performers dressed as lions dancing
3. Various of parade
4. Close up of dancers in traditional costumes
5. Children dancing in costumes
6. Performer dressed as lion dancing close to spectators
7. Two children with tiger masks on their heads watching performance, pan to person in lion costume in front of spectators
8. Close up of little boy with tiger masks imitating tiger
9. Figure of tiger passing by on top of vehicle, with Canadian flag attached to it
10. Performers in costumes with horse puppets passing
11. SOUNDBITE (Cantonese) Qin Do, spectator: ++NON-VERBATIM TRANSLATION++
"I really enjoyed the parade and I wish everyone a happy Chinese New Year."
12. Mid of car with Vietnamese sign, tilt up to Vietnamese woman waving with Olympic mittens, UPSOUND (Vietnamese) "Chuc Mung Nam Moi!" - "Happy New Year!"
13. Chinese man with "Canada" cap playing the drum
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Vox Pop:
"Olympics is amazing, spectacular, I love it so much, the best in the world, Happy New Year!"
15. Close up of participant in tiger costume
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Karen Chiu, spectator:
"I saw the Olympics, we will have more medals coming up! For everybody, Kung Hei Fat Choi!"
17. Mid of spectators cheering and waving British Columbia state flags
18. Close up of woman with mask jumping up and down
19. Chinese woman beating the drum
STORYLINE:
Thousands of residents and Olympic visitors have lined Vancouver''s streets to welcome the Chinese New Year on Sunday.
Colourful traditional costumes were joined by Olympic flags, hats and mittens as the Spring Festival parade wound its way through Vancouver''s Chinatown district.
Vancouver has one of the biggest Chinese populations in North America, with many more Chinese speakers visiting relatives during the games.
This year''s parade welcomed the Year of the Tiger, with tiger costumes and masks a popular choice.
More than 3,000 people took part in the parade, including the largest assembly of traditional lion dance teams in Canada.
The Chinese-Canadian community in British Columbia can be traced back to immigrant workers who arrived from California during the 1858 Fraser Valley gold rush.
Since the 1970s, the majority of new Chinese-speaking immigrants have come from Hong Kong and Taiwan.
The 2006 Canadian census found more than one (m) million people listed Chinese languages as their mother tongue, making them the third most commonly spoken languages after English and French.
Around a third of Canada''s Chinese-speaking population live in Vancouver.
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