Vancouver used to have a Sea festival

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/sea-festival-files-for-bankruptcy-protection-1.545832

https://shrineodreams.wordpress.com/tag/vancouver-riots/

https://vancouversun.com/news/this-day-in-history-july-11-1970

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/marine-history-festival-founders/article983586/

Fortunately, Seattle is still able to have their festival after all these years. They just never seemed to have the same problems that Vancouver had.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Seattle+Seafair