Check out the Canuck Canteen and local culinary offerings for the best of the best! The Canteen, which will be run by Chefs Channon Mondoux, Margot DeBoe, and Austin Shynal, is a joint effort with VFW Red Arrow Post 1527 helping to raise funds for their work in the community. The Canteen will be offering traditional Canadian specialties like poutine and authentic peameal bacon sandwiches in addition to treats like Buttertarts and Nanaimo Bars!
These local and regional food vendors will offer delicious takes on Canadian Cuisine and local favorites.
- Gourmet Small-Batch Popcorn | Good Batch – Good Batch Popcorn
- Heart to Tart Bakery
- Best Coast Provisions
- Millenium Restaurant Group
- BC Pizza
- Niskers
- Treat Street
- Grand River Brewery
Beer and Beverage Garden operated by the Chefs and Cooks Association. Enjoy delicious craft beers, including Final Gravity’s Double Double stout and Brewery Outré’s Newfound Brown made especially for the Fest, alongside your favorite imported Canadian favorites.
The World Champine Poutine Competition Vying for the coveted “Golden Gravy Ladle” Trophy. Get your Poutine Passport and sample the poutines! When you complete it, you’ll get a button with Polli Poutine declaring that “I WENT TO CANADIANA FEST 2024 AND I EH’T ‘EM ALL!”
New in 2024! Butter Tart Competition Open to all who want to bring their best version of this sweet Canadian classic, professional bakers and home bakers both! Bring a dozen buttertarts to the information booth and they will be judged by a panel of bakers, Canadians, and buttertart lovers. We’ll announce the winners from the stage in the afternoon! SIGN UP HERE: https://forms.gle/u5oztUnFxSpXQGXJ9
New in 2024! The Canuck Canteen! Festival founder and local chef and food historian Channon Mondoux leads a team that is making authentic Canadian favorites for purchase! The menu so far: peameal bacon sandwiches, poutine, and nanaimo bars. There will also be buttertarts and ketchup potato chips!
Try the VIP experience! Enjoy Canadiana Fest in style!
- NO WAIT GATE- Enter at the west gate on Koopsen’s Alley for NO WAITING!
- Tasting Ticket includes up to 6 tasting pours of either on tap custom Canadian Style Beers or Canadian varietal wines.
- Canadian sommelier Austin Shynal from the Niagara region of Ontario, will be serving samples of Ontario wines in French and English.
- Mixologists Nyx and Anastasia will serve up creative and delightful mocktails featuring Clearly Canadian sparkling waters. Come taste their enticing treatments and unique flavor profiles!
- NOSH on delicious finger foods and bites across the day by top local chefs.
- POSH private luxury portable bathrooms, covered tables and seating area.
- No wait dedicated craft beer trailer, exclusive access to the stage with outdoor cocktail tables and seating.
- Meet and greet with all of the bands.
- Jones Dairy is bringing their grill trailer with all kinds of bacon (including Canadian!), sausages, and other delights!
RETAIL ARTS AND CRAFT VENDORS
Are you interested in being a retail arts and craft vendor at the Canadiana Fest? Email us at info@canadianafest.fun! Here’s who is joining us so far!
KalamaSoap Smell your way to The KalamaSoap Company, LLC at Canadiana Fest! Frustrated by the limitations of gender-defined fragrances, Kat Stuart began hand-crafting small-batch formulations to customize her scentworld. In 2022 she started The KalamaSoap Company, LLC to offer fragrant self-care freedom to all. Fragrance has no gender: Smell YOUR way.
Daniel Ellis As a graduate American Academy Of Art in Chicago, Daniel has had a lifelong passion for drawing and painting. At the age of eleven while visiting a distance relative, who happen to be painting a beautiful oil landscape, there was never a doubt of what he was to become. With a focus on portraitures Daniel has comprised a collection of works that includes people and pets.
Large Wooden Badger Designs brings their vision for wearable jewerly art to life with wire wrapped stones collected from the Great Lakes, as well as other beautiful pieces.
Joy Pup Designs does beautiful glass etching and Letterkenny items!
Pawfect Apparel creates Canadiana and dog themed items with a creative verve!
NONPROFIT TABLES WELCOME
Are you interested in having a nonprofit information table at the Canadiana Fest? Email us at info@canadianafest.fun!