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QueenBԪַs Baton Relay reaches Victoria

The baton visits 70 Commonwealth nations before reaching AustraliaBԪַs Gold Coast in April 2018.
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Mayor Lisa Helps speaks on VictoriaBԪַs role in receiving the QueenBԪַs Baton for AustraliaBԪַs XXI Commonwealth Games, July 31. (Morgan Cross photo)

Mayor Lisa Helps kicked off the QueenBԪַs Baton Relay just past noon at City Hall on Monday.

Victoria is one of four Canadian cities visited by the baton relay, which will make its way through 70 Commonwealth nations before arriving in Gold Coast Australia for the XXI Commonwealth Games in April 2018.

BԪַI want to welcome the baton to the City of Victoria, the capital city of British Columbia. This is its 141st day, on tour through 70 countries, and itBԪַs here today in the capital city, and as mayor that makes me very proud,BԪַ said Helps.

BԪַMy teammates represent the spirit of the Commonwealth Games BԪַ excellence, commitment, inclusion and diversity. As the baton makes its 388-day journey through 70 Commonwealth countries, itBԪַs a golden thread that weaves us all together from different cultures, countries, socioeconomic backgrounds.BԪַ

Helps, marathon runner Bruce Deacon, para-soccer player Liam Stanley, international field hockey player Ravi Kahlon, and Commonwealth Games swimmer and triathlete Suzanne Weckend travelled from City Hall on Pandora Avenue through to Vancouver Street and Rockland Avenue where they finished at Government House.

The baton was then presented to Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon.

Helps added the city looks forward to the possibility of welcoming back the baton in 2022.

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