Welcome to October folks! This week we have a long list of events for you – starting with the long-awaited comeback of Markham Fair! Halloween events are starting to roll out so you can get your scream on early this year and if nature calls you, the salmon are starting to run so here is your chance to watch that happening. If you are a foodie, then take a tour of local farms while you gather your produce for a locally sourced Thanksgiving dinner and if music is your thing go dance your heart out in Unionville or hear The Tenors at Flato Markham Theatre this weekend. For all this and more, scroll down to find out What’s On in Markham – Sept 29th – Oct 4th!
Markham Fair – Sept 29th – Oct 2nd
The annual Markham Fair returns for 2022 after a 2-year break!
The Markham Fair, Canada’s largest four-day agricultural fair is jam-packed with attractions, events, competitions, and performers featuring Monster Truck Show, Paw Patrol Meet & Greet with Chase and Sky, SuperDogs, Demolition Derby, Tractor Pull, Horse Pull, Animal displays, and shows.
The fair features it’s popular cooking demonstrations, commercial exhibit buildings, horse shows, face painting, live entertainment.
Don’t miss the midway with over 40 rides and a firework display each night of the fair.
For more details click here. Price: from $10
The Tenors Now & Forever – Flato Markham Theatre – Oct 1st
The Tenors have been thrilling audiences around the world with their powerful songs, outstanding harmonies, and undeniable charm. Blending classical music and contemporary pop, the award-winning and multi-platinum selling band have
achieved international success, performing over 1500 live shows and hundreds of TV appearances on five continents.
For more details click here. Price: from $129.95
Dance Together Festival – Unionville Bandstand – Oct 1st – 11am
The Dance Together Festival and York Region Arts Council (YRAC) bring FREE outdoor workshops to York Region this fall to celebrate positive and accessible dance experiences. Each activation includes two diverse style community dance workshops with music suited for all ages and all abilities!
Join us for Cuban Fusion, Waltz, Ukrainian Folk Dance, Afro-fusion, Hip Hop, Salsa and more!
For more details click here. Price: FREE
Reesor’s Corn Maze & Pick-Your-Own Pumpkins – Reesor’s Farm Market – Markham – until Oct 31st
Reesor’s Corn Maze and Pick Your Own Pumpkin fields are open. The maze and pyo pumpkin field will be open from Thursdays to Saturdays in September and Tuesdays to Saturdays in October.
For more details click here. Price: from $3.50
Halloween Adventure – Vanquish a Vampire in Markham – Mandaen Cemetary – Oct 1st, 15th & 29th
Multiple teams compete in an outdoor adventure game to banish a ghost. It’s an escape room, scavenger hunt, geocaching and amazing race all wrapped up in one great game.
Drive to a haunted house, hallowed cemetery, vampyrean death funnel and more. Practice your vampire defence tactics then return and change the vampire Countess Malvada into a ghost. Save Markham.
Our staff will start your story and provide you with all the materials you will need.
BONUS – Ghost Buster Certificate for bragging rights later on
BONUS – Personalized radio reports before and after to extend the adventure
BONUS – Photo/Video Share Package to boost your social media
For more details click here. Price: $36.42
Farm to Fork Tour – East Gwillimbury – Oct 1st
The Farm to Fork event is a self-guided full-day tour through the scenic countryside where you will visit 8 venues in East Gwillimbury to pick up all the fixings to experience a farm-fresh Thanksgiving. On the tour, you’ll be able to meet the farmers who harvest your food, explore their farms, learn new recipes, and take the freshest meat, eggs, honey, fruits and veggies and flowers home with you for your Thanksgiving feast.
For more details click here. Price: $6.32
Halloween Haunt – Canada’s Wonderland – until Oct 30th
This fall, Halloween Haunt returns to Canada’s Wonderland with a sinister transformation, turning the theme park into a scream park filled with Halloween attractions that offer unforgettable thrills and unspeakable horror.
Immerse yourself in the nightmare of Haunt, a Halloween event where the streets are filled with terror, including hundreds of monsters, terrifying scare zones and mazes, ghoulish street performers, live music, thrilling night rides, and electrifying live shows.
For more details click here. Price: from $44.99 if tickets are bought online.
TCRA Adventure of Salmon – Morningside Park – Oct 2nd
Discover the exciting adventures that salmon in the GTA go on each fall at this free family event!
Participants will follow the trails within the Highland Creek watershed and learn about the migration of salmon, the various species, their life cycle, the work that the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) is doing to help salmon in the GTA waters thrive — and more!
Remember to keep your eyes peeled along the creek to spot salmon as they “jump” upstream to spawn!
Register for your spot today!
For more details click here. Price: FREE
Winterize Your Lawn and Garden Webinar – Oct 4th
From lawn care and leaf clean‐up, to preparing for next year’s garden beds—learn what to do this fall to give your lawn and garden a head start next spring. You will leave this workshop with a plan for a healthy, beautiful yard.
Participants will receive online gardening fact sheets and guides.
This event is intended for a General Audience:
– Beginner level information
– Includes intermediate concepts
– Content intended for adults
For more details click here. Price: FREE
AMD Geocache Event – Markham Museum – Oct 1st
Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) York Chapter is teaming up with AMD to deliver a fun, new and exciting event on Saturday, October 1st, 2022, from 11:00AM to 1:00PM at the Markham Museum’s Transportation Hall!
Students in grades 6 to 12 are welcome to sign up to compete in an indoor GPS scavenger hunt. In teams, students will work together using GPS technology to solve engineering puzzles and compete for fun prizes. Pizza lunch is included!
Each participant must bring their own electronic device with the “what3words” app downloaded. The device can be a cell phone, iPad, etc. The device must have Wi-Fi access, the ability to download and use the what3words app. Participants are encouraged to test the app usage out at home prior to the event. You will need to download this app to compete: https://what3words.com
For more details click here. Price: $6.32
Spooktacular Light Show – Richmond Hill Go Station – Sept 30th & dates thru Oct
A family-friendly light show like none other! Witness over two million lights in the comfort of your very own vehicle!
Drive and experience our unique animated displays, music lights, pumpkin tunnel and much more!
For more details click here. Price: $33.84
Mini Bioblitz – Findin’ The Fungi – Whitchurch-Stouffville – Oct 1st
Join us for a day of discovering fungi! We will be surveying to see how many types of fungi we can find. From slime moulds to fairy wings, there are so many to discover at a private protected property in Whitchurch-Stouffville.
Once considered as a part of the plant group, fungi have earned their own kingdom thanks to the unique characteristics and requirements of these organisms. Join us on a FUN afternoon of learning all about the ecological significance of fungi, modes of generating energy, reproductive strategies, and more!
For more details click here. Price: FREE
Haunted Hollows Scream Park – East Gwillimbury – Oct 1st – 31st
Welcome to Haunted Hollows, a 2.5 acre haunted scream park attraction like no other. Follow our twisted trails into the dark forest and come face to face with your deepest fears. Here, among the crooked and gnarled trees, you’ll encounter horrifying clowns, ghouls, giant spiders, murderous inmates, ravenous cannibals, deranged mental patients, and demented doctors. They’re all waiting for you in the darkness of Haunted Hollows.
For more details click here. Price: $32.84
October Harvest Festival – Forsythe Family Farms Uxbridge – Oct 1st – 31st
Come on out; relax and enjoy time with your family. Get back to the basics – visit the farm animals, walk our trails, and enjoy weekend wagon rides (weather permitting).
Our main emphasis is to get outside and enjoy the beauty the countryside has to display. The fall colours are brilliant this year, the air is fresh, and with our farm walks and scavenger hunts, you can enjoy space and exercise. There’s lots of fun stuff happening on the farm.
Our pumpkin patch is amazing this year. Our pick-your-own pumpkin patch is inside our admission area this year. There will be a huge selection of picked pumpkins by our market, convenient and close to the parking lot for those who are short on time. Come and find your perfect pumpkin.
For more details click here. Price: $12
After Dark Spooky Festival – Brooks Farms Uxbridge – until Oct 30th
Brooks Farms After Dark takes over our former spooky nights (which was geared towards younger kids). We will now offer a spooky evening of fun, with 3 haunts, live entertainment, performers, wagon rides and more! Great fun for the whole family. We have entire forest for trick or treating for the younger kids. As well as two new haunts in our sunflower maze and corn field for the braver souls.
after dark attractions:
Creepy Wagon Ride (all ages)
Spooky Trick or Treat Forest Walk (for younger kids)
Stalking Dead Corn Maze (10 and up)
Deadflower Maze (10 and up)
Fire Pits
Live Entertainment
Lit Pig Races
For more details click here. Price: $19.99