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Festivals in Canada

Canada is a beautiful place with diverse culture. The culture of Canada is highly influenced by American culture because of migration and immediacy between the two countries. Canadian festivals attract many visitors. These festivals bring joy and happiness in the life of people. There are numbers of Canadian festivals but few famous festivals are :

  1. Another Canadian festival is The Calgary Stampede, for which millions of people visit Calgary to celebrate this festival
  2. Vancouver symphony of fire - this Canadian festival is celebrated every year in summer. It is largest fire works competition in the world is held over numerous nights.
  3. Edmonton Folk Festival celebrated in Edmonton and which was began in 1980 and became world's premium folk festival
  4. Toronto International Film Festival. This is leading film festival in the world. This is very popular Canada festival
  5. International Shellfish Festival, Prince Edward Island started in 1996 and known as largest Canadian festival
  6. Winterlude, Ottawa is very entertaining and joyous festival celebrated for first three weekends every February , known as winter festival
  1. Shediac Lobster Fest is a 4 days long event celebrated in july and started in 1949. you can enjoy all the source of entertainment here.
  2. Canada Day Celebrations, July 1st, Ottawa & Canadawide. This Canada festival is celebrated on July 1st celebrations in Canada. It is analogous to the July 4th festivities in the US
  3. Festival Acadian De Clare in Nova Scotia is oldest Acadian festival in Canada started over 53 years ago
  4. Montreal Jazz Fest, Montreal- festivals offers about 500 concerts and out of them about 3 quarters are free of charge. For this Canadian festival millions of visitors visit Canada
  5. Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival is started in 1983 for the motive of providing fun and entertainment
  6. Quebec Winter Carnival is biggest carnival in Quebec City
  7. Celtic Colours International Festival is celebrated in October generally for 9 days
Jan 1 New Year's Day
Jan 2 Day After New Year’s Day (QC)
Jan 6 Epiphany
Feb 2 Groundhog Day
Feb 9 Islander Day (PE)
Feb 14 Valentine's Day
Feb 16 Family Day (AB, ON, SK)
Feb 16 Louis Riel Day (MB)
Mar 9 Commonwealth Day
Mar 17 St. Patrick's Day (NL)
Mar 17 St. Patrick's Day
Apr 9 Vimy Ridge Day
Apr 10 Good Friday
Apr 12 Easter Sunday
Apr 13 Easter Monday
May 18 Victoria Day (All except NB, NS, PE)
Jun 21 National Aboriginal Day
Jun 24 St. Jean Baptiste Day (QC)
Jul 1 Canada Day
Jul 9 Nunavut Day (NU)
Aug 3 New Brunswick Day (NB)
Aug 3 Heritage Day (AB)
Aug 3 British Columbia Day (BC)
Aug 3 Civic/Provincial Day (MB, NT, ON, SK)
Sep 7 Labour Day
Oct 12 Thanksgiving Day (All)
Oct 31 Halloween
Nov 11 Remembrance Day (All except MB, NS, ON, QC)
Dec 11 Anniversary of the Statute of Westminster
Dec 24 Christmas Eve
Dec 25 Christmas
Dec 26 Boxing Day (All except AB, BC, NU, PE)
Dec 31 New Year's Eve