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What's On: Halloween Events Across Canada

We've scoured the country from coast to coast to bring you a by-no-means complete, but a sampler list of Halloween events and activities for all to enjoy!  Don't see your favourite event? Feel free to post it in the comments below.

 

VANCOUVER

EVENT: Fright Nights at Play Land, Pacific National Exhibition
DATE: October 16-November 1
ABOUT: Fright Nights has returned from the dead and is haunting us for another year! We've expanded the horror, the terror, and the hair-raising rides that will leave you crying with fear. Goosebumps and chills will accompany you on your journey through new haunted houses and creepy attractions. Dare yourself and double-dare your friends to experience one of the scariest Halloween events in Vancouver!

VICTORIA

EVENT: Discover the Past Ghost Bus Tours
DATE: October 18, 24, 25, 29 and 30
ABOUT: Ghost Bus tours are conducted by John Adams for the Old Cemeteries Society. Now in their 16th year, these famous two-hour coach trips travel through Victoria’s most haunted neighbourhoods.

EVENT: Great Big Boo! A Halloween Musical Adventure at the McPherson Playhouse
DATE: October 29
ABOUT: Designed for families with young children, this musical is a fun and non-threatening way to enjoy the scariest time of the year.

EDMONTON

EVENT: Let's Go Batty!  At the Devonian Botanic Garden
DATE: October 26
ABOUT: The theme is bats! Create a batmobile from a pumpkin, play bat games, take a walk through our ‘bat house’ and learn all about these amazing creatures! Refreshments will be available. Free admission to the Garden – nominal fee for the pumpkins and refreshments.

EVENT: Halloween at West Edmonton Mall
DATE: October 25-31
ABOUT: Free activities and entertainment

 

CALGARY

EVENT: Monster Ball at Art Central
DATE: 
November 1
ABOUT: Leave the munchkins at home and celebrate Halloween in style with your favourite witch or ghoul. Adults only. All proceeds go to Studio C art studio and gallery.

EVENT: Nightmare NOW Haunted House at Kartworld
DATE: October 10-November 1
ABOUT: In it's third year, we're kicking it up a notch for 2008!  With two totally terrifying scare houses, we're bigger and badder than ever!

EVENT: Scream Fest at Canada Olympic Park

WHEN: Open to the public October 17,18, and October 23-November 1
ABOUT: Haunted houses, a FestEvil Tent, the Bowels of Hell and Zombie Town mazes, not to mention the roaming entertainers from the spook world and the living, it’s a scream for (almost) the entire family! PG-13.

REGINA

EVENT: CNT Ghost Tours of Regina
WHEN: October 21st through to October 31st.
ABOUT: What better way to bring in the Halloween season than to experience the chills and thrills of Regina’s most haunted hot spots? Departing from St. Chad's 1601 College Avenue.

EVENT: It’s… Spooky Science
 at the Saskatchewan Science Centre
WHEN: Every weekend in the month of October, 2008
ABOUT: Scream into Spooky Science Month in October and experience chills, spills and exploding pumpkins in the eerie Mad Scientist Stage Show.

EVENT: The Regina Un-Ghost Tour
WHEN: All year round.
ABOUT: Come explore with us this fascination we all have for the darker aspects of life when the night grows longer and daylight vanishes everyday earlier in the fall. Let archaeologist Claude-Jean Harel be your guide through the streets of Regina's Cathedral neighbourhood.

SASKATOON

EVENT: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" at the Children’s Theatre, Off Broadway Arts Centre

WHEN: October 25-November 15
ABOUT: A spooky classic story that keeps children on the edge of their seats!

EVENT: Halloween Fun at Enchataland, and the 2nd Annual Grand Pumpkin Fair
WHEN: October 5-31
ABOUT: Halloween puppet show, Grand Pumpkin Fair and Monster Mash! Come one, come all!

EVENT: 9th Annual Haunted History Party
 at the Meewasin Valley Centre
WHEN: October 26
ABOUT: Halloween is sneaking up on us, so come to the Meewasin Valley Centre for some spooky fun. Play ghoulish games, make creepy crafts, and get a terrifying treat.

WINNIPEG

EVENT: Six Pines Ranch and Farm Halloween Haunt Festivities

WHEN: October 4-30
ABOUT: Six Pines takes you for a trip back to that mysterious place, somewhere far away from the homeland of Transylvania; the place known as Castle Frightenstone… Six Pines offers family trick-or-treat fun with a variety of “fang”tastic events for boys and ghouls of all ages.

EVENT: Halloween Haunt at the Marine Museum of Manitoba
WHEN: October 17-19th and October 24-26th
ABOUT: Bring the whole family for an evening of Halloween fun! Explore the haunted ghost ship Keenora and watch for spooks around every corner! Something new every year! Halloween Haunt has something for all ages! The S.S. Keenora is our scariest ship and not recommended for young children (parental discretion). The M.S. Lady Canadian is for young children to enjoy. It is decorated like the S.S. Keenora by with nobody scaring the young kids! The third ship hosts activities such as crafts, puzzles and games.

 

TORONTO

For the partiers, check out the after hours events scheduled

EVENT: Screamers Halloween Park at the Ex
WHEN: October 17-November 1
ABOUT: Featuring six fear-filled haunted attractions, Screamers has horrors for even the most discerning tastes. Not recommended for those who are under the age 10, over 65, pregnant or who suffer from high blood pressure. Your pay-one-price admission to our dank netherworld includes all six blood-curdling walk-through attractions, our slaughter house theatre presentation and unlimited carnival rides at the Field of Screams Midway.

EVENT: Toronto Halloween Cruise
WHEN: October 31
ABOUT: The Jubilee Queen Cruise Boat hosts a 4 hour party in style with creepy music and ghoulish drinks over a watery grave. Adults only.

EVENT: Halloween Haunt at Canada’s Wonderland
WHEN: October 3-Novembr 1, every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 7pm - to midnight
ABOUT: Beware of all that creeps and lurks in dark corners as darkness settles over Canada’s Wonderland and all manner of ghoul prowl about while ghastly creatures stalk their prey.

EVENT: The Haunted Adventure
WHEN: Every weekend in the month of October, gate opens after dark.
ABOUT: Toronto’s original horror theme park. Grisly creatures are just dying to meet you in the Black Cavern, the Haunted Barn and along the Terror Trek Trail… if you make it that far. Not recommended for those who are under age 8 or are pregnant.

OTTAWA

EVENT: Haunted Harvest Festival
 in Manotick Village
WHEN: October 25
ABOUT: Take part in the Halloween festivities, including pumpkin carving, games, hayrides and treats for all ages.

EVENT: 17th Annual Haunting Season at Saunders Farm
WHEN: October 3-31
ABOUT: Balls are for wimps! Come and have a scream on our 35-acre farm frequented by ghosts, ghouls and grisly creatures. Not recommended for children under the age of 10.

EVENT: Annual Pumpkin Festival at Proulx Berry Farm
WHEN: Mid September through to all of the month of October -- Saturdays and Sundays, and Thanksgiving Monday
ABOUT: Be a kid again this Halloween season and roam the fields, explore the mazes and clamber atop structures of hay. The farm is transformed into a Halloween giant play area. Come, bring a picnic, join us at the farm for a ghostly gathering in a country setting just a few minutes from Orleans, and 30 minutes east of downtown Ottawa.

MONTREAL

EVENT: The Great Pumpkin Ball at the Montreal Botanical Garden
WHEN: Halloween activities begin October 3rd, through to the 31st, 2008
ABOUT: Hosted by Esmerelda the Friendly Witch, The Great Pumpkin Ball is Montreal tradition not to be missed.

EVENT: Halloween Frightfest
 at La Ronde
WHEN: Weekends, October 4-31
ABOUT: Every weekend in October, La Ronde morphs into a truly scary venue with its different activity zones. The traditional, ever-popular Haunted House will be back to scare visitors out of their wits! And new this year, La Ronde will be open on the evening of October 31. Frightful fun for everyone!

QUEBEC CITY

EVENT: Halloween Lantern Tour, The Haunted Tower, and Mystery Dinner at the Martello Tower, All at the Plains of Abraham
WHEN: October 5-November
ABOUT: On Halloween, the park will experience the torments of a special 100th-anniversary program that should make the bravest turn white with fear. Amazing legends will relive in the Joan of Arc Garden and other activities will provide opportunities to flirt with the out-of-the-ordinary. Youngsters will conquer their fears when they visit the haunted tower and its labyrinth, which is sometimes dark, but always full of surprises. The most resourceful will then take up the challenge of the fantastic rally, a self-guided tour of the garden, with surprises waiting for them at the other Martello Tower. Have dinner during the 1814 British Occupation… and see which one of your fellow dinner guests is a traitor.

PEI

EVENT: 2008 Wishmaker Parade
 - Several Locations!
WHEN: October 18
ABOUT: Come out and support the Children’s Wish Foundation this Halloween season by dressing your kids up and taking part in this annual parade.

CHARLOTTETOWN

EVENT: Haunted Halloween Tour with Emerald Isle Carriage Tours
WHEN: Please contact for details
ABOUT: Tours are approximately 40 minutes long, tour historic Charlottetown and be haunted by ghosts of PEI’s past.

MONCTON

EVENT: Boo at the Zoo

WHEN: Activities will be held October 17-25th
ABOUT: Join in the Halloween fun at the family edition of Boo at the Zoo at the Magnetic Hill Zoo.

HALIFAX and area

EVENT: Bluenose Ghosts Haunted House and Cemeteries Tours
WHEN: October 23-November 1
ABOUT: Have an adventurous Halloween — tour Alderney Landing’s haunted house and cemetery… if you dare.

EVENT: Kentville Harvest and Pumpkin People Festival
WHEN: October 4-26
ABOUT: Theme displays are located throughout the town of Kentville. Various events and entertainment are played to kick off the Kentville Harvest Festival on the 1st Saturday of October. The main attraction of Harvest Festival is "The Pumpkin People Workshop".

EVENT: 2008 Maritime Fall Fair at the Exhibition Park
WHEN: October 10-19
ABOUT: Join us in celebrating the best of the best in agriculture as we bring the country to the city. Experience farm fun, petting zoos, interactive agriculture displays, horse and cattle competitions, homemaking competitions, great food, midway rides and the best in family entertainment. See you at the fair!

ST. JOHN’S

EVENT: The Harbour Haunt at the Village Shopping Centre
WHEN: Nightly tours, October 9th through to November 1st, 2008
ABOUT: St. John's is renowned for it's haunted history, so there's no shortage of lost souls who mysteriously congregate each year for Harbour Haunt. It seems that no matter where the event is located, they find it!

WHITEHORSE

EVENT: Halloween Bonfire at Wye Lake Park and Halloween Eve Celebration at the Watson Lake Park Recreation Centre
WHEN: October 31
ABOUT: Celebrate this Halloween sipping hot chocolate around the bonfire and watching some awesome fireworks, followed by a dance. For further details please call (867) 536-8020
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Comments:

Make sure you don't miss out this weekend only Pilot Butte, SK (which is only 5 minutes east of Regina).  There is a Haunted house geared for ages 9 and up.  Medieval themed Haunted Castle.  Quite an amazing experience.  It will be the best 5 bucks you ever spent - no joke!  Not super-scary but great story, great props, great actors and all the money goes to charity.  You can't miss!  Oct  18, 2008 from 6-11pm.  In the community hall in Pilot Butte.

 

There was a great Halloween event listing for the City of Toronto at clubpath.com

October 20, 2008 12:17 PM

 
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