The first of July,
in one gallery.
This page is for whoever is hosting on the first of July: the backyard barbecue, the street that closes for the afternoon, the community centre running the pancake breakfast and the fireworks, and the family marking their first Canada Day as citizens. The day is long and the photos scatter with it, from the parade at ten to the fireworks after dark, across the phones of neighbours who will never be in the same group chat. One QR code on the cooler, the picnic table or the park sign gives all of them one place to go.
One-time. No account needed to buy — about a minute.
The moments guests actually photograph at Canada Day gatherings
Why Canada Day gatherings work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
Fireworks from the phone that was closest
Everyone films the fireworks and every clip goes into a different chat. Uploads keep the original file, short videos included, so the neighbour who was at the front of the park with the steady hands is the one whose clip the whole street gets to keep.
Grandparents in Manila or Mumbai watch the first one
For a family marking their first Canada Day as citizens, the people who most want to see it are usually on the other side of the world. Live Broadcast streams the flag-raising, the backyard or the fireworks on a private link with sound for up to 90 minutes, to any phone browser.
A community event with a hundred volunteers
A town's Canada Day has volunteers at the breakfast, along the parade route and at the stage, and none of them is the official photographer. One code on the signs and the program collects what all of them see, and the committee downloads the archive for next year's poster and the council report.
No app. No account. One scan.
Guests point their camera at a QR code and are uploading in seconds. Nobody installs anything, nobody creates a login, and the grandparents can do it as easily as the teenagers.
unlimited photo and video uploads
Every guest can send as much as they like: phone photos, iPhone HEICs, short videos, up to a fair-use bound of 25 GB per event. Originals are kept at full resolution.
Broadcast it to the people who couldn't come
A private live broadcast is included with the Event Pass: stream up to 90 minutes to 100 viewers on a private link, with sound, and keep the recording afterwards.
Live photo wall on any screen
Open the slideshow on a TV, projector or laptop and new uploads appear as they arrive. Grid and collage layouts, transition presets, and a phone remote to control it from across the room.
Private by default, never indexed
The gallery is only reachable by the link or code you share. Guest pages are blocked from search engines and named AI crawlers, and you can close the gallery whenever you choose.
Full-resolution downloads
Download any photo, or the whole event as one archive, at original quality. What guests uploaded is what you keep — no compression, no watermark on paid events.
How it works
Set up in a minute. Collect for the whole event.
Create the event for the day. A community committee can add the pancake breakfast, the parade and the fireworks as sub-events under one code so volunteers and families upload to the same place.
Put the QR code where people stand still: the cooler, the lemonade stand, the bleachers along the parade route, and the sign at the park entrance.
Guests upload through the afternoon, and the fireworks clips land after dark. Start the broadcast for relatives abroad when the flag goes up or when the fireworks start, whichever they asked for.
Download the originals over the long weekend and send the gallery link to the street or the town, so the family that moved away sees the year they missed.
Try uploading as a guest.
Scan this with your phone the way a guest at your event would. Choose a sample photo and upload it from your browser, then open the demo gallery to see it land. Photos pass a quick AI check first; videos wait for a person.
- Scan the code with your phone camera — it opens straight in the browser.
- Upload a sample photo. Look for the upload confirmation so you know it reached the host.
Use a sample you are comfortable sharing with Picsui. Please keep personal or sensitive photos out of the demo.
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This is the same kind of code your guests scan at your event.
Getting the most from Canada Day gatherings
For a backyard or block party, one code is enough, and the best place for it is the cooler, because everyone visits the cooler and nobody visits the sign. Print it on a sheet in a plastic sleeve and tape it on. Tell people once, early, that the fireworks clips go to the same code, because those come in after dark when nobody is thinking about it and they are the clips the whole street wants the next morning. The upload page works from the park on a normal signal, and a clip that stalls on a crowded network is queued on the phone and goes through when the phone gets home to Wi-Fi with the page open.
For a town or city event, the committee should create the event and use sub-events for the breakfast, the parade and the fireworks so the archive sorts itself. Put the code on the program, the stage banner and the volunteer T-shirts if it is not too late to print. Turn on host review so a volunteer approves what appears in the shared gallery, and put the slideshow on the stage screen between acts so people see their own photos and scan for more. Families who are new to the country often photograph the most, and this is a way for the town to keep what they saw.
If the family is at the cottage for the long weekend, treat Canada Day as one day inside the cottage weekend rather than a separate event, and put the code on the fridge. The dock at noon, the canoe race, the flag on the boathouse and the fireworks over the lake from the neighbours' point all land together, and the cousins who had to leave early still see the fireworks they missed. Signal at the lake is thin, so most of those photos arrive from the marina or the highway the next day, which is fine; the gallery stays open long after the weekend.
Common questions about Canada Day gatherings
We are new citizens and this is our first Canada Day. Can family back home watch?
Yes. A private live broadcast is included with every Event Pass: up to 90 minutes to as many as 100 viewers on one link, with sound. Send it to the family the day before with the time in their zone, whether that is Manila, Lagos, Mumbai or Kingston, and they open it in a phone browser with no app and no account. They see the same gallery afterwards from the same link, so the photos of the day reach them too.
Half the street will be there. Does everyone need to sign up?
No. A guest scans the code with the phone camera and the upload page opens in the browser, with nothing to install and no account to create. Guest pages are in English, Español, Français, picked from the phone's own setting, so the family from Montréal and the family from Guatemala on the same street are not guessing what a button does. A name is optional, and the code keeps working after the day for the neighbour who forgot.
Will the fireworks videos upload from the park?
Short videos upload from the guest page the same way photos do, at the original quality, and count toward the unlimited allowance with a 25 GB fair-use bound. A crowded park can have a slow signal at ten at night, so a clip that will not go is queued on the phone and sent once the phone is back on Wi-Fi, or from the same code the next morning. The best fireworks clips usually arrive the next day for that reason, so leave the gallery open.
Our town runs the Canada Day event. Is the gallery public?
It is private by default and reachable only by the link or code the committee shares, and guest pages are blocked from search engines and named AI crawlers. Turn on host review so a volunteer approves uploads before anyone sees them, and the committee can remove any photo a resident asks to have taken down. If you want the gallery reachable from the town website, post the link there; it is still the same private gallery, open only to people who have that link.
What does it cost for one day?
An Event Pass is $29, paid once for the event, with no subscription and no charge per guest. It includes unlimited uploads with a 25 GB fair-use bound, the slideshow, host review, full-resolution downloads and 365 days of hosting, and the private broadcast is included for the relatives abroad. A committee can pay it from the event budget; a backyard host can try it first on Free Preview and upgrade when the neighbours start scanning.
Every photo from Canada Day gatherings, in one place
One-time Event Pass, $29. No subscription, no per-guest fee.
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