Event listing for Ontario
| All Ontario | Earth Hour 2012 Lights out across the province at 8:30pm on March 31. Turn off all nonessential electronic devices for a full hour, to help reduce your carbon footprint. |
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| All Ontario | Build a LEGO Bunny at Toys R Us Max. 100 per store. |
Free |
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| Barrie | Chappell Farms’ Spring Festival Activities include candy hunt (every hour), magic shows, wagon rides, animals, trike track, and a jumping castle. |
$ |
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| Barrie | The Barrie Earth Hour Music Festival Free concert in downtown Barrie featuring Les Stroud (Survivorman), The Coalition, The Rockafellers, Stacy Jamieson and Transistor. |
Free |
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| Bloomfield | Countylicious Dine at Countylicious, Prince Edward County’s prix fixe culinary celebration. |
$ |
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| Bloomfield | Maple in the County Annual celebration of all things maple. Feast on delicious maple-themed meals, enjoy a wagon ride, take a tour of a sugarbush, build a birdhouse, or listen to some toe-tapping fiddle music. |
Free |
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| Brampton | Downey’s Farm Easterfest Activities include Easter Egg Scramble (4 times throughout the day), magic show, puppet show, face painting, egg decorating and farm animals. |
$ |
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| Burlington | Bronte Creek Maple Syrup Festival – Bronte Creek Provincial Park Activities include a guided tour of the Maple Lane, where 1890s costumed interpreters demonstrate how to tap maple trees, make maple syrup and maple sugar. Visit the heated pancake house where you can enjoy fresh, hot pancakes with pure maple syrup and sausages. |
$ |
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| Campbellville | Mapletowne at Mountsberg Conservation Area See how sap is magically transformed into sweet‚ sticky syrup and smell the fragrant steam rising from simmering kettles. |
$ |
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| Elmira | Elmira Maple Syrup Festival Fun for the whole family: pancakes with maple syrup, sugar bush tours, antique and collectibles show & sale, toy show & sale, petting zoo, and more. |
$ |
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| McDonalds Corners | Maple Sugar Season 2012 See how Maple Syrup is made at the sugar bush. Sleigh rides, taffy-on-snow and artisans in the Museum on weekends, tours, nature trails, heritage displays, pancake meals, and maple products for sale. |
Free / $ |
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| Ottawa | JUNOfest Canadian music hits the streets with a multi-venue showcase of over 100 local, regional and national acts. |
$ |
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| Ottawa | Maple Sugar Festival | $ |
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| Ottawa | The Juno Awards The 2012 JUNO Awards will feature performances by Blue Rodeo, City and Colour, deadmau5, Feist, Hedley, Hey Rosetta!, Nickelback and a new ‘mixed tape’ featuring Alyssa Reid, Anjulie, Dragonette, JRDN, and Mia Martina. |
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| Paris | Brantford Lapidary & Mineral Society’s 40th Annual Gem & Mineral Show Dealers, demonstrations, exhibits, ‘Mine for Gems’ display. |
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| Port Hope | Float Your Fanny Down the Ganny Float Your Fanny Down the Ganny is a 10km race along the Ganaraska River to commemorate the 1980 flood that crippled Port Hopes downtown area. |
$ |
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| Port Hope | Maple Syrup day at the Ganaraska Forest Centre Tour the sap collecting route, visit the sugar shack, and enjoy story-telling from historic characters, enjoy some pioneer games and face painting before settling in for a pancake feast. |
$ |
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| Prince Edward County | Maple In The County 2012 | Free / $ |
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| Rockton | Sweet Taste of Spring, Maple Syrup Festival at Westfield Heritage Village Explore the making of maple syrup from the tree to the table in three different time periods: the methods of Canada’s First Nations, 19th century pioneers and modern times. Families can take an old-fashioned horse and wagon ride and purchase a pancake breakfast. |
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| Schomberg | Puck’s Farm Easter Egg Hunt Puck’s Farm celebrates Easter this weekend, with family-friendly activities including pony rides, wagon rides, games and an Easter egg scramble. The Easter Egg Hunt lasts all day, and Easter Egg Scrambles are at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. |
$ |
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| Stouffville / Woodbridge | Sugarbush Maple Syrup Festival at Bruce’s Mill and Kortright Conservation Area Demonstrations, wagon rides, live entertainment and, of course, pancakes and maple syrup. |
$ |
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| Stratford | Annual Swan Parade Weekend There will be swan topiaries, live entertainment, music and guided swan walks. Swans released 2 pm Sunday. |
Free |
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| Toronto | Earth Hour celebrations in Toronto’s Distillery Historic District From 7:30pm to 9pm, hosted by CBC’s Garvia Bailey, hear the Team Earth Hour Anthem performed live for the first time. Choir! Choir! Choir! will perform the song in a sing-a-long. |
Free |
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| Toronto | Easter Egg Painting Workshop: A family workshop at Todmorden Mills Heritage Site Create your own personalized pysanky (Easter eggs) using traditional wax resist techniques. |
$5.00 |
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| Toronto | Festival of Storytelling | Free / $ |
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| Toronto | National Motorcycle & Tattoo Show Retail motorcycle show featuring new and used motorcycles, parts and accessories, custom and vintage motorcycles on display, used bike lot/motorcycle auction and new this year, a tattoo show. Takes place at the The Better Living Centre at Exhibition Place. |
$16.00 |
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| Toronto | One of a Kind Show | $ |
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| Toronto | Spring Egg Fun at Colborne Lodge Children enjoy egg hunts, and decorate eggs using natural dyes inside historic Colborne Lodge. |
$3.00 |
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| Toronto | The Spring Cottage Life Show Takes place at the International Centre. |
$ |
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| Winona | Easter Egg Eggstravaganza at Puddicombe Estate Farms and Winery Easter Egg hunt for the kids, create your own special Easter craft keepsake, farm fun wagon ride, scavenger hunt, visit and feed the spring time animals, visit with the Easter Bunny and friends. Wine tasting for adults included. Pre-registration tickets required. |
$10.00 |
