Canada Day Poster Challenge 2001 Finalist for Nunavut Announced
IQALUIT, April 27, 2001 -- On behalf of Minister of Canadian Heritage Sheila Copps, Wilf Wilcox, President of the Celebrate Canada Committee for Nunavut, has announced that Ryan Arreak, 15, a student at Nasivvik High School in Pond Inlet, has been chosen as the Nunavut finalist in the Canada Day Poster Challenge 2001. The announcement was made today in Iqaluit.The second and third place artists were Laura Ootova, 13, and Dawn Katsak,17, who are also students at Nasivvik High School in Pond Inlet.
Sponsored by the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canada Day Poster Challenge 2001 was open to young people 18 years of age and under and drew approximately 50 entries across the territory. Participants were invited to use their imagination to create posters that showed their pride in Canada by interpreting the Poster Challenge theme, "Celebrating Canada's Diversity."
One design will be chosen from among the provincial/territorial finalists as the official Canada Day poster to be distributed across the country. All finalists and their guardians will be guests of Minister of Canadian Heritage Sheila Copps in Ottawa on July 1. They will join the Governor General, the Prime Minister and the thousands of Canadians who gather on Parliament Hill to take part in the Canada Day festivities.
Jasc Software Inc., the official software sponsor of the Canada Day Poster Challenge 2001, will provide Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7 CDs to the 13 provincial/territorial finalists and runners-up.
Information:
Cynthia Welna
Program Officer
Canadian Heritage
(867) 669-2810
Wilf Wilcox
President
Nunavut Celebrate Canada Committee
(867) 983-2268
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