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Community Peace Walk & Picnic

The future is peace

Community Peace Walk & Picnic

Sunday, September 20, 2026
2:00–4:30 PM

Walk with us

Hand-drawn poster reading ‘The future is peace’ and ‘Walk with us,’ showing children of many skin tones holding hands in a ring around the Earth, framed by daisies, red poppies and peace symbols.

 

Schedule for the day

  1. 2:00 PM
    Water Ceremony at the Alderney Ferry Terminal with Grassroots Grandmother Dorene Bernard.
  2. 3:00 PM
    Ferry to Halifax and walk to Peace & Friendship Park.
  3. 3:45 PM
    Community Picnic and Celebration with music, poetry and refreshments.
When
Sunday, September 20, 2026
2:00–4:30 PM
Starts at
Alderney Ferry Terminal, Dartmouth
Ends at
Peace & Friendship Park, Halifax

With thanks to

  • Halifax Raging Grannies
  • Dartmouth Girl Guides and Pathfinders
  • Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace
  • Ecology Action Centre
  • Mahatma Gandhi Canadian Foundation for World Peace
  • Halifax Regional Municipality

 

Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace
Community Peace Walk & Picnic · Sunday, September 20, 2026

 

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Shoulder to Shoulder: We Are All Treaty People — Rally in Kjipuktuk/Halifax

Promotional graphic for the “Shoulder to Shoulder: We Are All Treaty People” rally on November 15 at 12 p.m. at the Halifax Commons, Robie and Cogswell. Includes a photo of a land defender camp with a tipi, stacked logs, and an orange flag.

Shoulder to Shoulder: We Are All Treaty People — Rally in Kjipuktuk/Halifax
Saturday, November 15th, 12 noon —Halifax Commons

Shoulder to Shoulder: We Are All Treaty People — Rally in Kjipuktuk/Halifax

Communities across Mi’kma’ki are gathering on Saturday, November 15 at 12 p.m. for a rally on the Halifax Commons (Robie & Cogswell). The event brings people together in support of land and water protectors, including those at Tqamuoweye’katik (Hunter’s Mountain) and other sites where communities are raising concerns about environmental destruction.

This rally centres on a simple truth: Treaty relationships carry responsibilities for all of us. These responsibilities ask us to show up, to protect the places that sustain life, and to ensure that community voices are heard when decisions impact our shared future.

Participants are invited to bring banners, signs, flags, regalia, drums, songs, and prayers as we stand with neighbours, Elders, youth, and families from across Mi’kma’ki.

NSVOW stands in solidarity with all who work for peace, justice, and the protection of land and water.
We encourage our members, friends, and allies to join and show support in whatever way feels right for them.

 

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Peace Walk 2025

PEACE WALK 2025: 80 km for 80 Years

Join us in remembering the past and walking toward a peaceful future.

Peace Walk Registration & Waiver Form

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. To honour this solemn milestone and renew our collective commitment to peace, Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace and Peace Quest Cape Breton invite you to participate in the “80 km for 80 Years Peace Walk.”

Led by Mi’gmaq water and land protectors, this walk will trace an 80 km route across Mi’kma’ki from Pugwash to Truro from September 15 to 21, culminating on the International Day of Peace.

🕊 Why We Walk:

  • To remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
  • To walk together across communities and cultures.
  • To create space for truth, reconciliation, and reparative justice.
  • To centre Indigenous and African Nova Scotian youth voices.
  • To affirm our shared vision for a just and peaceful world.

80 km for 80 years posterWalkers will visit local schools, including Pugwash District High School—Canada’s only school declared “nuclear weapons free.” We’ll gather stories, foster intergenerational connections, and close with a celebration and community panel in Truro.

Route Highlights:

  • Mon. Sept 15: Peace Hall (Tour of Thinker’s Lodge available)
  • Tues. Sept 16: Walk to Wallace via local schools
  • Wed. Sept 17: Wentworth
  • Thurs. Sept 18: Folly Lake
  • Fri. Sept 19: Debert (Tour of Debert Bunker and Mi’kmawey Trail)
  • Sat. Sept 20: Arrive in Truro
  • Sun. Sept 21: Community celebration and panel event

📄 Download the Invitation PDF
📄 Download the Poster PDF

To join or learn more, email:
nsvoiceofwomen@gmail.com
winkler.kathrin2@gmail.com

Let’s walk together for peace, justice, and the generations to come.

If you would like to participate in the Peace Walk, please fill out the form below. We will be in touch with more information.


Peace Walk Registration & Waiver Form

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Walking Together for Peace: Honouring Nova Scotia’s Legacy of Disarmament

On September 8, 2024, the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW), alongside Science for Peace and Jai Jagat, began a powerful two-week, 200 km Walking Together for Peace journey from Halifax to Pugwash.

This walk is deeply symbolic: it connects today’s peace movement with the historic Thinker’s Lodge in Pugwash, the site of the groundbreaking 1957 conference that brought scientists from both East and West together to oppose nuclear weapons. That meeting sparked the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, later awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995.

Why We Walk

  • To call on nations to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, renewing the global push for disarmament.

  • To stand in solidarity with the Jai Jagat movement, whose roots in India’s Gandhian peace marches continue to inspire a global culture of nonviolence and justice.

  • To mark September’s International Day of Peace (Sept. 21), when over 100 peace walks took place worldwide.

Walking, as Jai Jagat teaches, is more than movement—it’s meditation, unity, and a living message of peace. Each step carries a commitment: to a world free from nuclear weapons, to climate and social justice, and to a culture of peace for future generations.

 A Global Connection

This Nova Scotia walk is part of a broader, international campaign to resist militarism and nuclear escalation at a time when world tensions are rising. By walking together, we continue the work of past generations and extend an invitation to all who believe in peace: join us, learn with us, and walk for a world without war.

Read the full article here: Activists Walk Together for Peace in Nova Scotia

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Standing for Peace: NSVOW Protests the DEFSEC Arms Show in Halifax

Standing for Peace: NSVOW Protests the DEFSEC Arms Show in Halifax

From October 1–3, 2024, members of the Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace (NSVOW) joined allies to protest the DEFSEC Atlantic arms show in Halifax. Each day, from 12 to 1 pm, we gathered to stand against the global arms trade and its direct links to violence in Gaza, Lebanon, and beyond.

As reported by Peace Brigades International–Canada, DEFSEC’s sponsors and exhibitors included some of the world’s largest weapons manufacturers, among them Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Leonardo, BAE Systems, and Rolls-Royce. According to the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), these companies supply aircraft, artillery, naval weapons, and tanks that have been used extensively in attacks on Gaza and Lebanon.

This protest came in the wake of alarming findings by the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry, which concluded that Israeli authorities are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza since October 7, 2023. The International Court of Justice has also ruled that it is plausible that genocide is being committed against the Palestinian people.

By showing up at DEFSEC, we join a growing movement demanding an arms embargo now—calling on Canada to end the export of weapons to Israel and to fulfill its obligation to prevent genocide.

📢 We stand with peace activists across the globe in saying:
No more weapons. No more war. We choose peace.

For more details, you can read the full press release here: PBI-Canada Report on the DEFSEC Protest