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Celebrate Canada Day

Canadiana themes are big in corporate entertaining, but when it comes to hosting the home party, we tend to look for inspiration from lands afar. Here are a few simple ideas for creating a patriotic gettogether:

• Host an Inukshuk-building party, adding to your garden statuary with the Inuit’s symbolic wayfinding “image of man” or mini versions as takeaways for guests.
• Put your game face on with a menu featuring maple-glazed pheasant, elk and bison.
• Organize a wine tasting to swirl, sniff and sip your way through vintages from Canada’s great grape-growing regions.
• Colour it all red and white, from invitation and dress code, to table linens and glassware.
• Stock the bar with Canadian-brand micro-brews and spirits for pioneering sexy themed cocktails.
• Visit nature for décor accents: beautiful birch bark containers filled with grasses, twigs, sand and polished stones—don’t forget the maple leaves.