Spot Prawn Festival Tempts Tastebuds with Fresh Pacific Catch
2025-05-25 11:00 - 15:30 (America/Vancouver) | Granville Island, 1661 Duranleau Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6H 3S3, Canada
Spot Prawn Festival brings the best of BC to your plate with delicious dishes, live music, family fun, and more.
Get ready for a seafood experience like no other at the Spot Prawn Festival! This event promises to serve up the freshest Pacific spot prawns, bringing the ocean’s finest directly to your plate. Whether you’re a prawn enthusiast or a casual seafood lover, you won’t want to miss this flavourful celebration.
The Spot Prawn Festival at the Fisherman’s Wharf by Granville Island lets you enjoy delicious spot prawn dishes. From grilled to fried, sautéed to seasoned, there’s a dish for every taste.
Local chefs showcase their culinary skills, creating mouthwatering recipes that highlight the rich, natural flavours of Pacific spot prawns.

Chefs serving mouthwatering dishes at the Shrimp Festival! (Stephanie Yuen)

Beyond the food, the festival is a lively experience for all ages. Enjoy live music, vibrant stalls, and fun activities for the whole family. It’s not just a feast for your tastebuds, but for all your senses.
What makes the BC spot prawns so special? The Pacific Ocean’s rich marine life produces prawns harvested in BC, renowned for their freshness, sweet flavor, and firm texture.
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Did you know? These spot prawns “have a 4-year life cycle and start as males then transition to females in their last year.”
Most spot prawns are harvested from the waters between Vancouver and Vancouver Island. The fresh catch is delivered straight from the ocean to local vendors, ensuring each bite is as fresh as it gets.
Don’t forget to pair your spot prawns with a refreshing drink from local breweries or enjoy a tasty seafood cocktail. This festival offers the perfect setting to relax, unwind, and savour the tastes of the Pacific.
The Spot Prawn Festival is the ultimate destination for seafood lovers. So, gather your friends and family, and experience the Pacific’s best prawns.
You’ll be going back for seconds!

Butter Tart Festival - Savour Sweet Fun in Midland
2025-06-14 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Midland Culture Centre, Midland, Ontario, 333 King St., Midland, Ontario, L4R 3M7, Canada
Butter Tart Festival celebrates 11th anniversary this June showcasing the best of Canada’s authentic pastry. Savour the sweetest day of the year in Midland, Ontario.
The annual event is Canada’s original and largest butter tart festival. Butter tarts are a classic Canadian dessert made with delicious flaky pie crust filled with butter, brown sugar, maple syrup, and eggs.
The dessert is a cultural pride of many communities across Ontario, Canadian Central and Maritime provinces.
The all-day event attracts about 60,000 visitors annually. The festival features

Egg Farmers of Ontario Butter Tart Contest. It is opened to both professional and amateur/home bakers in the traditional and wild style categories
Over 200 vendors including food trucks selling everything from butter tarts to unique, hand-made items and more.
Free family-friendly entertainment, a kids zone, free shuttles, a butter tart trot (pre-registration is required) and much more!

Love butter tarts? This is the place to sample butter tarts of all kind, from plain, raisin, pecan, walnut, maple, bacon, coconut, chocolate covered, gluten-free, vegan, nut-free, cheesecake, pumpkin and more.
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Experience A Day at the Farm
2025-09-06 10:00 - 16:00 (America/Vancouver) | 4690 Kirkland Rd., Delta, BC V4K 3N2, 4690 Kirkland Road, Delta, BC, V4K 3N2, Canada
Experience a Day at the Farm is a fun and family friendly event that provides visitors with a peek into the daily life of a local farmer in B.C.’s Fraser River Delta.
Experience A Day at the Farm at Westham Island Herb Farm nestled on British Columbia’s fertile Fraser River Estuary on September 06, 2025. Learn first-hand the challenges and rewards of growing quality food and how our farmland supports local and global biodiversity.
The Fraser River Estuary is the main artery that feed biodiversity to the province’s coast. The largest estuary along the Pacific Coast of North America is home to over 400 species of vertebrates, thousands of plant species and countless small invertbrates.
In the heart of the estuary is the the George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary. The sanctuary is an important ecological site to millions of birds, fish and other wildlife. It serves as an international crossroad of bird migration routes from 20 countries and three continents.
The Fraser River is the largest salmon producer on the Pacific Coast of North America.
Visitors can learn about soil health, ecosystem services, and the vital role farmers play as stewards of the land at the various interactive workshops and displays. Other activities include:

Live country/folk music performance
Potato dig
Poulty in motion
Hay wagon rides
Draft horse plowing
Cooking demonstration by Chef Trevor Randle
Jam and bread contests and more

Start your fall with a harvest. Pick your own pumpkins at the pumpkin patch.
