{"id":41834,"date":"2026-02-08T12:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=41834"},"modified":"2026-02-08T12:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:31:17","slug":"canada-declares-may-29-as-nepal-heritage-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/canada-declares-may-29-as-nepal-heritage-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Declares May 29 as \u2018Nepal Heritage Day\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Kathmandu, Feb 8: Canada\u2019s British Columbia province has officially recognized May 29 as \u2018Nepal Heritage Day.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The date marks the historic Everest ascent in 1953 by Nepalese climber Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and Sir Edmund Hillary. The proclamation by Lieutenant Governor Wendy Cockfield praises the Nepalese community for its contributions to the province\u2019s social, economic, political, and cultural development.<\/p>\n<p>It also highlights the role of Nepalese citizens in enriching British Columbia\u2019s cultural and ethnic diversity and commemorates the Everest ascent as a symbol of courage, unity, and Himalayan heritage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41835\" src=\"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/626213145_10173474097260182_3460780484019249822_n-365x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"245\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Kathmandu, Feb 8: Canada\u2019s British Columbia province has officially recognized May 29 as \u2018Nepal Heritage Day.\u2019 The date marks the historic Everest ascent in 1953 by Nepalese climber Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and Sir Edmund Hillary. The proclamation by Lieutenant Governor Wendy Cockfield praises the Nepalese community for its contributions to the province\u2019s social, economic, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41836,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41834\/revisions\/41836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}