Home for the Holidays Evening Market

Come join us for and evening of shopping , socializing and treats from local entrepreneurs.

All proceeds raised will given to our friends at Gananoque and District Humane Society. GDHS is a no-kill animal shelter that is run by volunteers with no public funding .

Date : Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 10pm to Friday, December 7, 2018 at 1am
Event location : Grace United Church – 120 Pine Street, Gananoque
Contact: Please call (613) 382-2161, e-mail: grace.gan@outlook.com or visit: http://www.graceunitedgananoque.com/

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Mingle & Jingle on the Block

Join a handful of your lower town Gan entrepreneurs for a little holiday fun in conjunction with the Houssam Alloum Art opening at the Heather Haynes Gallery – a project in support of the Gananoque Refugee Settlement Group Fundraiser.

Nature’s Tonic, Rapunzel Studio of Hair Design, Magnolia Flowers, Centre Stage Music, Little Pump House, and Steel Style Garage will be open late offering 15% off purchases, complimentary drinks, snacks, and laughs.

Pick up your event postcards within the 2 weeks prior to the event (we’ll let you know when they are ready), because not only are they your reminder of the event, the post card is your entry into a grand prize draw!! Each shop will donate some awesomeness to make for a stellar prize.

On the eve of the event, visit each shop to “connect the dots”, and once your image is complete, drop your ballot off at Heather Haynes Gallery and enjoy the art opening.

Winner of the draw will be announced at 8:30 pm.

Date : Thursday, December 6, 2018 from 5-8pm
Event location : King St E, Gananoque, ON K7G, Canada, Canada

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Lego Family Christmas Contest & Holiday Open House

Gananoque Public Library Lego Family Christmas Contest & Holiday Open House.

Gananoque Public Library
Lego Family Christmas Contest & Holiday Open House
Saturday, December 15, 2018 starts at 11 a.m.

LEGO entries deadline: Saturday, December 1st
Contact the library for entry details!

Prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.
Every participating child will receive a LEGO surprise!

Public Voting runs from Monday December 3rd to the Friday, December 14th

Date : Saturday, December 15, 2018 from 11am to 1pm
Event location : Gananoque Public Library – 100 Park Street, Gananoque
Contact: Please call: 613 382-2436, E-mail: gplp@bellnet.ca – Website: http://www.gananoquelibrary.ca/

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Holiday Cocktail Social

We’re throwing a holiday cocktail party!

Get dressed up in some fancy duds and join us for a fun night of live music, cocktails, hor d’oeuvres and a vintage clothing bazaar (special guests TBA) in our new and improved vintage clothing shop space (the name of the shop soon TBA as well!).

Date : Saturday, December 15, 2018 from 7pm to 11:59pm
Event location : Arts & Craft Collective – 161 King Street, East Gananoque
Contact: Phone contact: +1 289-696-5631

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The Gananoque BIA is proud to host the annual Santa Claus Parade. The parade will begin at Gananoque & Intermediate Secondary School and head downtown along King Street making it’s final turn on Park Street.

This annual evening Parade lights up Downtown Gananoque with a festive glow, live music & holiday magic!

Visit with Santa and get a FREE photo at Town Park from 6-7 p.m.

Stay tuned for details on inclusive accessible seating/viewing areas, including reduced sound options.

The Gananoque Santa Claus Parade is a much-loved community celebration of the Holiday season. The BIA is non-profit organization, and we need your help to make this the best Parade ever. Please join us as we give back to the community that supports us all!

Date :
November 24, 2018 from 5 to 7pm

Event location :
10 King Street East
(Second Floor – Visitor Centre)
Gananoque Ontario

Contact :
Alison at  downtowngananoquebia@gmail.com

Christmas Market – Featuring 19 vendors & Craft Makers, including wood working, wreaths & decor, knitted items, doll cloths, dog treats, dog coats, Tupperware, Scentsy, AVON, Epicure, Isagenix, Honey, DoTERRA Oils, Fifth Ave Jewelry, duNorth Clothing,Lipsense, Usborne Books and more. There will also be a raffle & Bake table. A delicious lunch of soup & sandwiches will be available.

Tables are available to rent (5′ x 2.5′) $20.

Date :
November 24, 2018 from 10am to 2pm

Event location :
Grace United Church, 120 Pine St. Gannaoque, ON K7G 1C7

Contact :
Laurie at grace.gan@outlook.com or call 613-382-2161 for more information or to register

Mark November 15th on your calendars!!! We are hosting our 4th makers market and it will be the perfect opportunity for you to pick up beautiful local gifts in an enjoyable shopping setting!

Current List of Makers: 

Arrow It Forward 
Nature’s Tonic
Head in Hats
Courtney Creations
Vanderzee
Women Who Swear
Boho & Hobo 
Kingston Cottage Macrame 
Fuzzling Monsters
Shiva’s Delight
The Ye11ow
Homegrown Rustic
Gold and Ginger
Lyndsay Lawson Artist
Beyond the Arbour
Sasspot Creations
Bubbles & Bombs
Here & Now
Fibre Art by Joyce
Black Sheep Cannery
LKL Creations
Cheesecakery Bakery

Date :
November 15, 2018 from 6 to 9pm

Event location :
Firehall Theatre – 185 South Street

Gananoque, ON

Contact :
E-mail: arrowitforward@gmail.com

Annual Grover Clare Senior Men’s Classic Bonspiel!

Entry includes: Two – 8 End Games (Total Points)
Fresh Coffee and Timbits
One of our famous Homemade lunches
Prizes
 
Only $140 per team!
 
Entries close November 7, 2018
Call to reserve your spot today!
 
Please make cheques payable to Gananoque Curling Club
*35% of entry fees will go towards prizes*

Please call 613 382 3281 for more information.

Date :
November 14, 2018 from 8am to 6pm

Event location :
Gananoque, ON

Contact :
Gananoque Curling Club at info@gananoquecurlingclub.com

For both beginners and those with experience, this three-week pottery course teaches you the basic techniques of hand-building lead by pottery artist Sarah Hamelin. Tuesdays, November 13th, 20th and 27th from 6:30-8:30 PM. Each week’s class is two hours long, which includes instruction and independent work time. Tackle a new project each night and make many original handmade gifts for the Holiday season.

Christmas Ornaments. Learn the basics to get you started! We’ll teach you how to roll out a slab, clean/compress and add texture. If you know the basics – you can get making right away. We’ll have time to make 10+ ornaments!

To buy tickets: https://www.artsandcraftcollective.com/book-online/one-of-a-kind-holiday-pottery-course

Date :
November 13, 2018

Event location :
Arts & Craft Collective – 161 King Street, East

Gananoque, ON

Contact :
Phone number: 613-382-2149

Gananoque Farmer’s Market

Fresh locally grown produce, meats, baked goods, cut flowers and more! Meet your farmers and neighbours, enjoy a picnic supper in the park and live music from the bandstand. Our market is proud to offer only locally produced goods, for sale by the hands that made/grew them!

The Gananoque Farmers’ Market operates with the goal of promoting local market growers and providing access to fresh local produce & local goods. The market is run by volunteers and the involvement of members to help contribute to the success of the market. The market is managed by a Market Coordinator and a volunteer board (known as the Board) composed of at least two vendors. Market Schedule The Market operates from the first Thursday in June through until the second Thursday in October, weekly from 4 p.m until 7 p.m. The market location is at the Gananoque Town Hall Park.

Thursdays from 4 to 7 pm

June 7th to October 4th

Date : Sunday October 4,  2018

Event location : Town Hall Park, King Street East, Gananoque, ON

Contact: Tara Treanor – ganfarmersmarket@gmail.com or visit https://www.gananoquefarmersmarket.ca/

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Gently Used Fall/Winter Clothing Bazaar

Our Fall/Winter Bazaar takes place Saturday Oct. 6 from 10 am to 1 pm at the Gananoque & District Humane Society shelter just north of Gananoque & the 401.

Our new collection of men’s and women’s clothing in excellent used condition, fashionable and low-priced, includes many of the higher-end labels you’re looking for plus some boutique surprises. This is the place to gear up with everything cosy for cold weather from business to active wear – sweaters, coats, jackets, cotton shirts, pants, skirts and more. It’s your treasure hunt so don’t miss out!

Our Bazaars are friendly, fun, and you can try things on! And all proceeds go to the sweet animals who need a second chance at life while waiting for their furrever homes in our no-K*ll, very caring shelter.

Date : Saturday, October 6, 2018 | 10am to 1pm

Event location : Gananoque & District Humane Society, 85 County Rd 32, Gananoque, ON K7G 2V3, Canada, Gananoque, Canada

Contact: Arlene, 613-923-1953, arleneamassey@gmail.com

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Fall Foliage Lunch Cruise 

A Gananoque Boat Line event.

Experience the enchanting golden colours of the 1000 Islands on our signature 2.5 hour cruise. Enjoy a seasonal home-style meal with friends and family.

Adult $54.95
Child 6 -12 $23.95
Child 2- 5 Free

Entertainment:
1:00 PM – 2.5 HOUR CRUISE

Meals Included:
Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, hot seasonal vegetables, cranberry sauce, mixed green salad, pasta salad, pumpkin pie and coffee or tea.

Date : Sunday, October 7, 2018

Event location : Gananoque Boat Line, 280 Main Street, Gananoque ON, K7G 2M2

Contact: call 1.888.717.4837  or visit https://ganboatline.com/

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated in Canada, the United States, some of the Caribbean islands, and Liberia. It began as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. Similarly named festival holidays occur in Germany and Japan. Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States, and around the same part of the year in other places.

What do people do?

Many people have a day off work on the second Monday of October. They often use the three-day Thanksgiving weekend to visit family or friends who live far away, or to receive them in their own homes. Many people also prepare a special meal to eat at some point during the long weekend. Traditionally, this included roast turkey and seasonal produce, such as pumpkin, corn ears and pecan nuts. Now, the meal may consist of other foods, particularly if the family is of non-European descent.

Date :
Monday, October 8, 2018

Event location :
Gananoque, ON

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Shirley Valentine

Shirley is a Liverpool housewife. Her kids have left home and she makes dinner for her husband every night while talking to the wall. Out of the blue, her best friend offers her the chance of a lifetime – but is she ready to take the plunge?

Date : Friday, October 12, 2018 | 8-10pm

Event location : Springer Theatre – 690 Charles Street South – Gananoque, Ontario Canada 

Contact: 613-382-7020 

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Canadian Corps: WWI in Story and Song

Date : Saturday, October 20, 2018 | 7-9pm

Event location : Springer Theatre – 690 Charles Street South – Gananoque, Ontario Canada

Contact: 613-382-7020

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Fall Pet Portraits at Pet Valu Gananoque

Pet portraits available. No appointment needed
4×6 in a folder $12
5×7 in a folder $16
8×10 print $24 plus $4 mailing fee
Digital file $26
Ask about our Christmas background..snowglobes, ornaments, keychains and buttons
A portion of the proceeds will go to Gananoque Humane Society
Cash, cheque, Visa, MasterCard, Amex and Tap Debit

Date : Sunday, October 21, 2018 | 9am to 3pm

Event location : Pet Valu Gananoque, 711 King St. East, Gananoque, Ontario K7G1H4, Gananoque, Canada

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Invite all of your friends to a celebration of everything dog! Meet the rescues, lots of great vendors for canine supplies and services, doggie displays and demonstrations. All dogs and dog lovers are welcome, so share this with everyone who would like to come and be sure to bring your well behaved dog! For safety, please keep all your companions on leashes. Admission is free.

Date : Saturday, July 28, 2018 at 10am

Event location : Town Hall Park, King Street East, Gananoque, ON, Canadá 

Contact :  Thousand Islands Bark Bash

Pirates are returning to the 1000 Islands and the fair town of Gananoque to host the 2017 Gananoque Pirate Invasion!

Festival dates:
July 6, 7 & 8, 2018

Schedule of Events:

Friday July 6th 6pm to 9am
Tall Ships Youth Sleep-Over with Pirates in Joel Stone Park ( Open to Youth 11-13 years old and a parent that wish to rent an accommodation tent overnight on the Friday). Join Youth arriving from a sail on The Black Jack Tall Ship mooring at the Festival in a Treasure Hunt with Compass, play a Ships Signalling Game, Dress as a Pirate, Sing Sea Shanties around the fire and sleep under the stars! Breakfast in the morning and then a full day of fun at the festival! Go to pirateinvasion.ca for details regarding the Accommodation Tents or email: ganpirateinvasion@gmail.com for details.

Saturday Festival Gates open – 10am-5:30pm

Letters of Mark with Treasure Maps are purchased for $2 at the gate for admission, and can be used to enter to win a fabulous prize if ye follows the map!

Horse drawn trolley will take festival goers between downtown and the festival site all day, while being entertained by a tall-tale telling and singing Pirate!

All Day enjoy pirate-inspired tasty foods, non-alcoholic beverages, local craft beers and grog in the Thirsty Bones Pirate Pub (licensed – onsite) – All ages welcome until festival close (5:30pm) and then Pub re-opens for 19+ visitors for night time show.

All day – pirate activities, games, and interactive exhibits to participate in across the encampment. Visit the Mermaid Grotto, Learn about Ship to Ship Battles and Armaments, Send a Secret Message by Ship to Ship Signals across the Encampment and get a reply back!, Interact with a crew of scallywag pirate characters – both French and English Speaking – will interact with and tell ye about their fine selves and life as a pirate on the high seas and Canada!

Come join the Pirate Invasion and lets go back in time together to 1691 – the Golden Era of Pirates!

All Day Continuous Activities include:
– Mermaid Grotto
– A French Quarter, with old-fashioned card and board games, open-fire French Bread cooking, stories of French Pirates, French Pirate Music and More!
– Cannon Ball Run Game
– Save The Ship game
– Tug-A-War with the pirates
– Swashbuckling story telling
– Fortune Telling
– Capt’n Tor’s Cooperative Mercantile
– Walk-the-plank
– Knot Tying
– Pirate Face painting
– Krakens & Rigging game
– Digging for treasure
– Local Merchants & Vendors
– Speciality Pirate and Period-historical Vendors

Send a message bottle fer additional details if ye be itchin’ ta sign up fer a higher level of participation as a volunteer in this event : ganpirateinvasion@gmail.com

Set up of the Encampment will occur Wednesday 2pm onward, Thursday, and Friday (August 16-18) Pirate Society and Volunteer folks are a huge help in getting the tents raised and ready! Make yer mark below ta let us know if ye can assist even fer a couple hours ta help set up!

Date : July 6, 2018 at 6pm

Event location : Joel Stone Heritage Park, Gananoque, ON K7G 2M5 

Fresh locally grown produce, meats, baked goods, cut flowers and more! Meet your farmers and neighbours, enjoy a picnic supper in the park and live music from the bandstand. Our market is proud to offer only locally produced goods, for sale by the hands that made/grew them!

The Gananoque Farmers’ Market operates with the goal of promoting local market growers and providing access to fresh local produce & local goods. The market is run by volunteers and the involvement of members to help contribute to the success of the market. The market is managed by a Market Coordinator and a volunteer board (known as the Board) composed of at least two vendors. Market Schedule The Market operates from the first Thursday in June through until the second Thursday in October, weekly from 4 p.m until 7 p.m. The market location is at the Gananoque Town Hall Park.

Thursdays from 4 to 7 pm

June 7th to October 4th

Date : July 5, 12, 19, 26 to October 4th, 2018

Event location : Town Hall Park, King Street East, Gananoque, ON

Contact : Tara Treanor – ganfarmersmarket@gmail.com or visit https://www.gananoquefarmersmarket.ca/