The best of #YourCanada and Canada Day Snapchat photos

In the days leading up to Canada Day we asked fans and followers to tag their most patriotic photos with the hashtag #YourCanada on Twitter and Instagram to show how much they love their country.

RELATED: Canada Day celebrations across the country

The #YourCanada photos were on our live blog, and several were featured on the Global National Canada Day broadcast.

This photo, captured by svenjawelk of the Calgary Flames at a Canada Day event, gracefully combines hockey with Canada Day.

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Some people temporarily tattoo their face with a Canadian flag, or grab a small paper flag to wave during the day, but not lvndrgrl of Lethbridge, Alta. She and her family went all out to give us this patriotic pic.

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The Canada Goose, as much a Canadian national symbol as the beaver, makes for a great Canada Day focus in this artfully shot Instagram photo by Toronto’s martin_jgg.

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Instagram’s classic sepia filter is put to fantastic use in this photo courtesy of nsdrifter from New Glasgow, N.S.

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This photo, taken by Vancouver’s fit2travel, was voted number one by viewers for capturing the beauty of Canada’s great outdoors.

During the day we asked our fans to show us how they were spending Canada Day by sending Snapchats to our globalnews1 account, and received these amazing photos:

Global News was out celebrating Canada Day at Celebration Square in Mississauga. Below is our Flipagram of the fun-filled day.

We’re glad to see that everyone had such a great Canada Day, and want to thank everyone who send us photos on any social media platform.

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