Top 3 Festivals in Canada.
1. Montreal International Jazz Festival
The Montreal International Jazz Festival is an annual jazz festival held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Montreal Jazz Fest holds the 2004 Guinness World Record as the world's largest jazz festival. Every year it features about 3,000 artists from 30 different countries. There are more than 650 concerts (including 450 free outdoor performances), and welcomes close to 2.5 million visitors. The festival takes place at 10 free outdoor stages and 10 indoor concert halls. |
2. Winterlude
Winterlude is an annual festival in Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec that celebrates winter. It is run by the National Capital Commission and was started in 1979. The event is one of Ottawa's most important festivals, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. In 2007, it set a new attendance record of an estimated 1.6 million visits to one of the four Winterlude sites. Winterlude takes place along the World's largest skating rink, the Rideau Canal Skateway, and sites across the Capital.Close to 600,000 people take part in Winterlude activities - most of which are free - each year. Fantastic ice carvings by artists from around the world fill Confederation Park in downtown Ottawa.The world's biggest snow playground - the Snowflake Kingdom - welcomes kids of all ages to Jacques Cartier Park in downtown Gatineau.The Winterlude mascots - the Ice Hogs family - are reputed to live under the ice of the frozen Rideau Canal Skateway.Winterlude has been celebrated in Ottawa and Gatineau for over three decades. |
3. Celebration of Light
The Celebration of Light is not only Vancouver's biggest event, but it's also the largest offshore fireworks competition in the world and attracts up to 400,000 spectators along English Bay each evening. The annual musical fireworks competition in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The first "Symphony of Fire" was held from July 25 to August 5 of 1990. The celebration is one of Vancouver's largest and most well known festivals. The multiple-day event has an estimated annual attendance of 1.4 million people. |