Digby Scallop Days
A beloved waterfront celebration of the scallop-fishing industry that put this Fundy Shore town on the culinary map, featuring parades, live music, carnival rides, lobster boat races, and fresh scallop suppers on the Digby wharf.
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"The world's oldest Acadian festival, now in its seventh decade, stretches across two weeks on Nova Scotia's French Shore with concerts, art and quilt expositions, kitchen parties, and the exuberant Tintamarre noisemaking parade on National Acadian Day."
Festival acadien de Clare
"Founded in 1765, the Hants County Exhibition is the oldest continuously running agricultural fair in North America, still drawing communities together across two weekends in Windsor for livestock competitions, horticultural displays, crafts, and carnival entertainment."
Hants County Exhibition
"Set in the charming Annapolis Valley university town of Wolfville, this beloved annual celebration of folk, roots, and acoustic music blends the founding musical cultures of Nova Scotia with modern roots talent across intimate indoor and outdoor stages."
Deep Roots Music Festival
"Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2026, this nine-day festival sends fiddles, pipes, and song echoing through dozens of Cape Breton villages against a backdrop of peak autumn foliage, with 52 concerts and hundreds of community cultural experiences."
Celtic Colours International Festival
"Nova Scotia's longest-running folk music festival brings more than 35 years of traditional and contemporary roots music to the UNESCO World Heritage waterfront of Old Town Lunenburg, with concerts, waterfront jams, and an intimate Maritime atmosphere."
Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival
"Canada's largest wooden boat show transforms the picturesque three-church waterfront of Mahone Bay each August with a spectacular parade of heritage vessels, shipbuilding demonstrations, boat races, and traditional Maritime craftsmanship."
Mahone Bay Classic Boat Festival
"A street-food and microbrewery festival in the small Capitale-Nationale village of Neuville, famous for its sweet corn, celebrating local and regional producers with an arts alley and lively outdoor atmosphere."
Desjardins Gourmet Festival Neuville
"A feast-for-all-senses weekend in the small resort village of Cavendish celebrating good music alongside the best of PEI's celebrated local food and drink scene."
SOMMO Festival
"A harvest-season celebration at Paterson Park in the historic village of Ladner featuring BC craft breweries, cideries, wineries, curated food vendors, and a full live music programme."
Barnside Harvest Festival
"A week-long outport celebration in a tiny Fortune Bay village centred on the beloved bakeapple berry, with daily breakfasts, church suppers, bingo, concerts, fairs, dances, and a community golf tournament that captures the warmth of Newfoundland outport life."
Garnish Bakeapple Festival
"Canada's national oyster festival, held in a village of just 250 people, hosts the Canadian Oyster Shucking Championship with top shuckers competing for the right to represent Canada at the World Championships in Galway."
Tyne Valley Oyster Festival
"A beloved Centre-du-Quebec village festival dedicated entirely to the pig, with music, pop and country acts, and a festive community atmosphere that draws crowds far beyond Sainte-Perpetue each summer."
Festival du Cochon de Sainte-Perpetue