This website is dedicated to discovering, visiting and promoting Ontario’s great festivals and events. You may be looking for a festival or an event to visit and want to find out about it before you go. You may just be interested in learning more about festivals, events and attractions in general. It’s your choice. We hope you enjoy the site and find it useful and entertaining.

What's New?

Introducing our NEW War of 1812 Celebrations Website

For some time Judi and I have been visiting historical re-enactments. The first re-enactment event that we visited was in 2007. We traveled to the Hamilton area to the Battle of Stoney Creek held at Battlefield House Museum and Park. This re-enactment depicted one of the important battles during the War or 1812. We had a great time and have become fans of historical re-enactments ever since! Some notable re-enactments we have attended include Wasaga Under Siege (Wasaga Beach), the Marine Heritage Festival (Port Dover), Rise to Rebellion (Georgina Pioneer Village) and War of 1812 Military Re-enactment (Upper Canada Village). Ever since our first encounter with re-enactments and re-enactors, I have been thinking about ways to further the War of 1812 memories and to honour the men and women who are now organizing the bicentennial celebrations. To do this we have added the War of 1812 Celebrations website to our popular Ontario Festivals Visited website. Ontario Festivals Visited currently attracts over 17,000 festival web visitors per month. It is our hope that a good number of these visitors will log onto the War of 1812 Celebrations home page. If they do they will find all kinds of exciting information! There are articles with photos about events that we have visited in the past and, as we visit future events, these will been added to our "Celebrations Events Visited" section. Festival and event news already plays an important roll with the Ontario Festivals Visited website through the Festival News section (almost 3,000 festival web visitors per month}. Our new "Celebrations Headline News" page gives website visitors War of 1812 news. Our "Celebrations Notes" offers readers weekly War of 1812 related articles - past, present and future! The "Celebrations Newsletter" will be published quarterly (more often if warranted) and will contain articles about upcoming events, celebration event organizers and celebration event participants. Finally the "Celebrations Event Calendar" lists upcoming events and each listing is linked back to the event's website. This is a free service offered to event organizers!
It is our hope that all "War of 1812 enthusiasts" will enjoy our new "War of 1812 Celebrations addition" and will participate in it by submitting ideas, photos and articles to us. Judi and I look forward to the War of 1812 (Celebrations) beginning! (Website Link)

Note: Ontario Festivals Visited is being updated on a daily basis. Please check the site regularly to read future reviews. Normally we attend one or two festivals, events or attractions per week. We have recently completed working on a number of articles:

CORNWALL LIFT-OFF
ST. LAWRENCE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (RE-VISITED) held in Prescott
CANAL, RAILWAY & CHOCOLATE FESTIVAL (RE-VISITED) held in Smiths Falls
STEWART PARK FESTIVAL held in Perth
MISSISSAUGA ROTARY RIBFEST
AROUND THE WORLD MULTICULTURAL TOUR held in Newmarket
ESTIVAL - PORT HOPE
AURORA JAZZ+ FESTIVAL
COE HILL WILD WEST WEEKEND
MARIPOSA FOLK FESTIVAL held in Orillia
TASTE OF THE DANFORTH held in Toronto
SIEGE OF FORT ERIE
FUR TRADE RE-ENACTMENT (RE-VISITED) held at the Lang Pioneer Village in Keene
PEAK TO SHORE MUSIC & ARTFEST held in Collingwood, the Village at Blue Mountain and Thornbury
FORTUNE COOKING FOOD FESTIVAL held at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto

More to come soon!

What's Inside?

• FESTIVALS & EVENTS VISITED - This page lists all of the festivals and events we have visited and written about.
• FESTIVAL NEWS - This section offers website visitors the latest festival and event news and views.
• HEADLINE NEWS - Find out what is happening in the world of Ontario's festivals and events. The news page is updated on a regular basis.
• FESTIVAL CORRESPONDENTS PROGRAM - This page outlines details of our new festivals and events correspendents program.
• BANNER ADVERTISING PROGRAM - This page outlines our 2010 banner ad program and shows all the advertising packages that are available plus the cost and benefits of each package.
• TOP 2010 100 FESTIVALS & EVENTS - This page lists Ontario's top 2010 100 festivals and events, as chosen by Festivals and Events Ontario (FEO).
• 2010 CELEBRATE ONTARIO FUNDING LIST - This page lists the festivals and events that were awarded 2010 Celebrate Ontario funding by the Government of Ontario.
• VISITOR'S FORUM PLUS - This page provides a comment section for website visitors to voice their opinions and observations.
• FESTIVAL NEWS SUBMISSION FORM - This page allows festival and event organizers to submit news about their event.
• FESTIVAL & EVENT INFORMATION - This page allows festival and event organizers to submit information about their event. This information will be used to up date our Event Calendar and our NEW Festival & Event Search Engine.
• FESTIVAL NOTES - Each month our free monthly newsletter, Festival Notes, is published and e-mailed to subscribers. This page contains a list of past newsletters and is available for all the read. Enjoy!