Wicked on Da Wharf - Grand Bank Summer Festival
A beloved outport summer festival on the Burin Peninsula featuring historic dory races in Grand Bank harbour, Newfoundland dinners, waterfront breakfasts, fireworks, and a classic outdoor scuff dance to close the week.
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"A week-long food, arts, and community festival in the historic fishing town of Bonavista, featuring a Yarn Bomb at the library, Pizza Wars, a Makers Market, Breakfast on the Wharf, a Mummers Parade, and fireworks over the harbour."
Bonavista Summer Festival
"A four-day literary festival set in the tiny heritage village on the shores of Bonne Bay within Gros Morne National Park, bringing celebrated Canadian and international writers together for readings, poetry, and storytelling under some of the most dramatic scenery in Eastern Canada."
Writers at Woody Point Festival
"Held at the tip of the Viking Trail each June when icebergs drift past the Great Northern Peninsula, this 10-day coastal community festival unites St. Anthony and neighbouring outport villages for boat tours, local seafood, and traditional Newfoundland music amid breathtaking Arctic scenery."
NL Iceberg Festival
"A waterfront weekend festival in the gateway village to Gros Morne National Park, offering moose burgers, fresh local mussels, live Newfoundland music, fireworks, and the chance to get Screeched In against spectacular fjord sunsets."
Harbour Lights Summer 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
"Gander's signature community festival, running for over 30 years in the town made famous by Come From Away, culminates in Gander Day on the first Monday of August with what is reputed to be Newfoundland's largest fireworks display."
Gander Festival of Flight
"A five-day late-summer fair in a small PEI market town celebrating the island's harvest season with exhibitions, entertainment, and the warm communal traditions of rural Prince Edward Island."
Kensington Harvest Festival
"Celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2026, this spectacularly colourful festival sends up to 30 hot air balloons soaring twice daily over the rolling hills of Sussex, New Brunswick, alongside a large indoor market, craft fair, amusement rides, and outdoor bandstand."
Atlantic International Balloon Fiesta
"A 40-year-old harvest tradition on the Lake Huron shore where giant pumpkins routinely tip the scales past 1,700 pounds and a two-day giant vegetable weigh-off anchors one of Ontario's largest outdoor car shows, a craft village, midway, and family fun."
Port Elgin Pumpkinfest
"A free, family-focused harvest celebration in the Mennonite-heritage town of Winkler, drawing thousands each August with a parade, midway rides, live entertainment, and fireworks rooted in the community's agricultural tradition."
Winkler Harvest Festival
"The Vermilion Agriculture Society's long-running summer fair brings together a parade, trade show, animal judging, pony chuckwagon and chariot races, and grandstand entertainment on Alberta's parkland prairie."
Vermilion Annual Fair
"A week-long small-town celebration in the heart of PEI's potato country, marking the blooming of the potato fields with community events, live entertainment, and agricultural pride."
PEI Potato Blossom Festival