The company behind the successful Canada Day fireworks display at Lafarge Lake will be shooting off pyrotechnics again in Coquitlam.
Lori MacKay, Coquitlam's general manager of parks, recreation and culture services, told the recreation committee this week that Archangel Fireworks Inc. has already been retained to top off next year's July 1 party.
The annual holiday event drew up to 70,000 people and cost $95,000 - $20,000 of which was spent on the 20-minute light spectacular that was set to music; the city also received a $6,000 grant from Canadian Heritage for the show.
Winnipeg-based Archangel represented Canada when it clinched the HSBC Celebration of Light competition in 2007 and 2008 in Vancouver's English Bay, and placed second the next year.
Wendy Wiederick, the city's community services manager, said her department will ask council to consider a July 1 party of the same scale for next year, as part of its 2012 budget deliberations in November.
Last year's July 1 fete was criticized for being too small for the 20,000 participants.
