Pride festivals across Canada: LGBT celebrations from Victoria to St. John's
Here's one thing for sure: Whether you're hanging out on the West Coast, traipsing around the prairies, or chilling in the Maritimes, you can't escape feeling proud if you're traveling around Canada during Pride season.
Yes, it's true—you can now find Pride celebrations in most cities, towns, and suburbs from coast to coast so there'll be plenty of fabulousness and festivities for everyone to partake in.
Just check out this long list below of Pride festivals to enjoy across Canada, with some even in the winter and spring. (Well, this is Canada, after all.)
Some of the bigger cities, like Toronto and Vancouver, even hold multiple or overlapping festivals. (Sorry, if we've missed anyone and we'll update the list if there are any more to add.)
It's quite amazing to see how many there are.
To jump to a specific region, just click on the province categories listed below.
Happy Pride to all!
British Columbia • Alberta • Saskatchewan • Manitoba • Ontario • Quebec • New Brunswick • Nova Scotia • Prince Edward Island • Newfoundland • Yukon • Northwest Territories • Nunavut
British Columbia
Whistler Pride: January 23 to 31, 2016
Cranbrook Pride: May 23
Quesnel Pride: June 6
Nanaimo Pride Week: June 13 to June 20
Haida Gwaii Pride (Masset): June 22 to 28
Victoria Pride: June 27 to July 5
Surrey Pride: June 28
Prince George Pride: July 6 to 12
Out in White Rock Celebration: July 16
Fraser Valley Pride Celebration (Abbotsford): July 17 to 19
Genderfest (celebration of all genders, Vancouver): July 18 to 31
Vancouver Pride Week: July 25 to August 2
Vancouver Dyke March and Festival (Vancouver): August 1
Okanagan Pride (Kelowna): August 8 to 15
New West Pride (New Westminster): August 8 to 15
Kootenay Pride (Nelson): August 28 to 31 [TBC]
Salt Spring Island Pride Festival: September [TBC]
BOLDfest 2015 (lesbian conference and festival, Vancouver): September 10 to 13
South Okanagan Gay and Lesbian Association (Penticton)
Alberta
Jasper Pride: March [TBA]
Edmonton Pride Festival: June 5 to 14
Lethbridge Pride: June 26 to July 4
Central Alberta Pride Week (Red Deer): August 14 to 20
Calgary Pride: August 28 to September 7
Medicine Hat Pride: September 14 to 20
Gay and Lesbian Association of the Peace (Grand Prairie)
Saskatchewan
Moose Jaw Pride: May 24 to 30
Prince Albert Pride Week: June 1 to 7
Southwest Saskatchewan Pride (Swift Current): June 5
Saskatoon Pride: June 7 to 14
Queen City Pride (Regina): June 15 to 21
Manitoba
Brandon Pride: May 29 to 31
Pride Winnipeg: June 5 to 14
Pride North of 55 (Thompson): June 27
Ontario
Ontario Gay Ski Weekend (Blue Mountain): January 7 to 10
Guelph Pride: May 1 to 10
Elliot Lake Pride: May 29 to 31
Pride Niagara: May 30 to June 6
Tri-Pride (Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo): May 30 to June 6
Durham Pride: June 3 to 7
Fierté Timmins Pride: June 5 to 14
Lanark County Pride Day (Perth): June 6
Barrie Pride: June 6 to 13
Thunder Pride (Thunder Bay): June 7 to 14
Kingston Pride: June 13
Grey Bruce Pride: June 13 to 14
York Region Pride Week (Markham, Vaughan, Aurora, East Gwillimbury, Georgina, Newmarket, Richmond Hill, Whitchurch-Stoufville, King): June 13 to 21
Brantford Pride: June 15 to 20
Toronto Pride: June 19 to 28
Prism Festival (circuit music festival, Toronto): June 25 to 29
Trans* Pride Toronto Community Fair, March and Rally: June 26
Dyke March Toronto: June 27
Kenora Pride: June 27 and 28
Belleville Pride in the Park: July 3 to 4
Kawartha Lakes Pride Picnic (Lindsay): July 11
Brockville Pride: July 13 to 18
Pride London: July 17 to 26
Muskoka Pride: July 17 to 26
Fierté Sudbury Pride: July 19 to 26
Pride Week in Peel (Mississauga): July 25
Simcoe Pride Week (Waubaushene): July 30 to August 8
Toronto Leather Pride: August 3 to 9
Windsor-Essex Pride Fest: August 7 to 9
Chatham-Kent Pride: August 22
Capital Pride (Ottawa): August 23 [TBC]
Sault Pride (Sault Ste Marie): August [TBC]
Peterborough Pride: September 12 to 19
Quebec
Fierté Montréal Pride: August 10 to 16
Fête Arc-en-ciel de Québec (Quebec City): September 3 to 6
New Brunswick
Fredericton Pride: August 9 to 16
Moncton's River of Pride/Rivière de Fierté Moncton: August 16 to 23
Saint John Pride: August 20 to 23
Nova Scotia
Pictou County Pride Week: June 22 to 28
Halifax Pride: July 16 to 26
Cape Breton Pride: August 7
Wolfville Area Pride Group: [TBA]
Southwest Nova Pride (Yarmouth)
Prince Edward Island
Pride PEI (Charlottetown): July 26 to August 1
Newfoundland
St. John's Pride: July 20 to 26
Western Pride NL (Corner Brook): September [TBC]
Yukon
Yukon Pride (Whitehorse): June 24
Northwest Territories
NWT Pride (Yellowknife): August 7 to 9
Nunavut
Iqaluit Pride: TBA
Comments
1 Comments
Alan Koivu
Jun 17, 2015 at 8:15am
Thank you for that fabulous Canadian Pride list! Next year, please include Thunder Pride in Thunder Bay, Ontario. We're enormously proud of our progress in this, our fifth year of Pride celebrations which we just wrapped up; June 7 to 14. Check out our website at http://thunderpride.ca