Happy birthday Canada Line!

One year ago today, the Canada Line officially opened to the public. The day kicked off with an official opening ceremony, and was followed by a free day of rides for everyone! And today, ridership is already exceeding our projections.

In honour of Canada Line’s one-year anniversary, I’ve dug up some little-seen photos from opening day. It turns out we have a lot of photos, so I’ll be posting them in four installments over the week. (Here’s part 2, part 3, and part 4 in this series.)

In this post, check out some photos of the official opening ceremony, plus snaps from Waterfront and Vancouver City Centre Stations on opening day.

This is just a small sample of many: see the full gallery of photos in this Flickr set!

For more, feel free to check out some first day stories, a roundup of opening day photo and video, and some past Buzzer posts about the construction of the line. As well, here’s the schedule and activity map from opening day!