While many Canada Day activities on city property have been cancelled due to the ongoing strike by city workers, Torontonians will still have some places to gather to celebrate the country's 142nd birthday.

And with any luck, CTV Toronto weather anchor Tom Brown hopes the clouds will clear by late Wednesday evening and allow everyone to get a good view of any fireworks displays.

Otherwise, Wednesday's weather looks to offer a below-average high of 23 degrees Celsius and a 60 per cent chance of showers, he said.

Here are some of the places that will be open and the activities they will host:

  • Queen's Park will hold a 21-gun salute at noon, followed by live entertainment and games
  • Ontario Place will close down the day with a massive fireworks display starting at 10:30 p.m. Over the course of the day, there will be Inuit performers and the West Coast lumberjack show
  • Harbourfront  Centre will have celebrations starting at noon. Highlights include the Somali-infused jazz of Faduma Nkrumah at 7 p.m. and the Constantines at 9:30 p.m. New citizens will be sworn in at noon in a ceremony at Lakeside Terrace
  • Downsview Park will offer free amusement rides, a ball hockey tournament and fireworks at 10 p.m.
  • Toronto Zoo will have free birthday cake at 2 p.m., along with face-painting and buskers
  • Black Creek Pioneer Village offers Highland dances, Victorian games and a puzzle path with a Canada Day theme
  • CHIN International Picnic at the CNE grounds will celebrate T.O.'s different cultures
  • Canada's Wonderland will have a fireworks display at 10 p.m.

At Nathan Phillips Square, the Toronto Jazz Festival will have a 25th anniversary reunion tour performance by the Shuffle Demons, renowned for their version of the Hockey Night in Canada theme song.

"If you are in Toronto on July 1, come to Nathan Phillips Square to help us break the Guinness World Record again for most saxophonists playing a song," the group said on its website.

They will be attempting to retake the record, earned by a group in Taiwan last year, by playing O Canada. The performance will begin at 4:30 p.m., but if you want to participate, on-site registration starts at 2:30 p.m. They need at least 919 sax players.

There will also be a jazz performance at 2300 Danforth Ave. from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

A Michael Jackson tribute will be held at Yonge-Dundas Square and will run from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. From noon to 8 p.m. at Yonge-Dundas, the Multicultural Canada Day festival will run. It will

Canada Day also marks the final day of the Rotary Club of Etobicoke's anual Ribfest. It starts at 11 a.m. and is located at Centennial Park (256 Centennial Park Rd.).

Here are some of the events on city property that were cancelled:

  • Amesbury Canada Day, Amesbury Park
  • Canada Day event, Earlscourt Park
  • Somali-Canada Day, Earl Bales Park
  • Ontario Australian Football Championships, Colonel Samuel Smith Park
  • Peanut Town Festival, Oriole Park North
  • East York Toronto Canada Day, Stan Wadlow Park
  • MPP Canada Day Event - Don Valley West MPP, Flemingdon Park
  • Shomoy Mela, Detonia Park
  • Canada Day Celebrations, Thompson Memorial Park/ Miliken District Park
  • Canada Day Celebration, St. James Park
  • 16th Annual Neighbours Together, Riverdale Park East
  • Canada Day Festival, Kew Gardens
  • Canada Day, Mel Lastman Square

The ferries to the Toronto Islands are out of service due to the strike.

With July 1 a statutory holiday, there will be the usual array of closures:

  • LCBO and beer stores
  • most grocery stores
  • most shopping centres, although the Eaton Centre and Vaughan Mills will be open. The businesses of the Yonge Street Business Improvement District (Yonge from Richmond Street to Grosvenor Street) will be open

The TTC and GO Transit will be running on holiday schedules.

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