February

• Canadian International AutoShow
  Canadian International AutoShow
  The Canadian International AutoShow, CIAS for short, is Canada's largest auto show and most prestigious consumer event in Canada. This event has been held in Toronto, Ontario since 1974 and is currently located in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and spans into the Rogers Centre...
  
   - at the Metro Convention Centre.
• Winter City
  Winter City
  Winter City or Winter Cities is a concept for communities in northern latitudes that encourages them to plan their transportation systems, buildings, and recreation project around the idea of using their infrastructure during all four seasons, rather than just two seasons .-Background:The Livable...
  
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• Mcluhan International Festival of the Future
• Toronto Bachata Festival (bachata, zouk and salsa, started in 2010.) http://www.TorontoBachataFestival produced by www.GoDanceMambo.com.

March

• St Patrick's Day Parade.
• L'Oreal Fashion Week.
• Canadian Music Week
  Canadian Music Week
  Canadian Music Week is an industry conference and music festival held over four days in various venues throughout Toronto, Ontario, Canada.-History:...
  
  
• Study and Go Abroad Fair Vancouver - Education, Volunteer programs, work abroad and internships
• Study and Go Abroad Fair Montreal
• Study and Go Abroad Fair Toronto

April

• 19th Annual Canada Life CN Tower Climb for WWF-Canada (April 16 and 18, 2009).
• Easter Day Parade.
• Sporting Life 10K.
• Hot Docs
  Hot Docs
  Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is North America's largest documentary film festival, conference, and market, held annually in Toronto, Ontario, Canada...
  
   - Documentary Film Festival.
• Khalsa Day parade, first held in 1986
• Markland Wood
  Markland Wood
  Markland Wood is a residential neighbourhood located in Etobicoke, in the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is bounded by Etobicoke Creek to the west, Elmcrest Creek to the east and surrounded by the Markland Wood Country Club...
  
   Environmental Day Clean Up is held in conjunction with the city of Toronto Community Clean Up Day.
• Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for Children, established in 1998

May

• Cabbagetown Forsythia Festival - Held the first Sunday in May.
• Doors Open Toronto
  Doors Open Toronto
  Doors Open Toronto, now in its 12th year, has evolved into a weekend festival that is recognized as one of Toronto's greatest cultural events....
  
  
• Science Rendezvous
  Science Rendezvous
  thumb|250px|Science Rendezvous signage and logo in background together with exhibit on States-of-Matter, [[hydraulophone]], and H2Orchestra, at University of Toronto, 2009...
  
  
• Contact Toronto Photography Festival
• Anime North
  Anime North
  Anime North is a non-profit, fan-run anime convention, held every year in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its major attractions, activities and events include a Masquerade, a Dealers Room, an Artists Alley, Guest of Honor presentations, Gaming , Panel Discussions, Video Presentations, Contests, and Dances...
  
   - Usually held the weekend following Victoria Day, although some times during the long weekend.
• Markland Wood
  Markland Wood
  Markland Wood is a residential neighbourhood located in Etobicoke, in the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is bounded by Etobicoke Creek to the west, Elmcrest Creek to the east and surrounded by the Markland Wood Country Club...
  
   Annual Community Garage Sale is held on the Saturday following Victoria Day, which is usually the last Saturday in May every year with hundreds of homes participating.
• Walk for Values
  Walk for Values
  The Walk for Values is a non-monetary annual walkathon to raise awareness for human values.Walk for Values began at the Sathya Sai School in Markham, Ontario in 2003...
  
   in Yonge-Dundas Square

June

• Luminato
  Luminato
  Luminato - Toronto Festival of Arts and Creativity, is a publicly-attended, multi-disciplinary arts festival held annually for 10 days each June in Toronto, Ontario, Canada...
  
   a festival of arts and creativity established in 2007
• Barbados on the Water Festival
  Barbados on the Water Festival
  Barbados on the Water is a three-day Canadian festival about the culture of Barbados. The festival takes place at the Harbourfront Centre, in the city of Toronto, Ontario...
  
  
• North by Northeast
  North by Northeast
  North by Northeast is an annual five-day live music and film festival and music conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, held each June....
  
  , an annual five-day live music and film festival and music conference
• Pride Week
  Pride Week (Toronto)
  Pride Week is a ten-day event held in Toronto, Canada, during the end of June each year. It is a celebration of the diversity of the LGBT community in the Greater Toronto Area. It is one of the largest organized gay pride festivals in the world, featuring several stages with live performers and...
  
   is the world's second largest gay pride
  Gay pride
  LGBT pride or gay pride is the concept that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people should be proud of their sexual orientation and gender identity...
  
   festival
• Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival
  Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival
  The Toronto Jazz Festival is a jazz event in Toronto and takes place in June and July. Unlike the Toronto Beaches Jazz Festival, most of the events are indoors and located throughout the downtown core. Formerly known as the DuMaurier Jazz Festival until the ban on tobacco advertising by the federal...
  
   - various indoors and located throughout the downtown core
• MuchMusic Video Awards
  MuchMusic Video Awards
  The MuchMusic Video Awards are annual awards presented by the Canadian music video channel MuchMusic to honour the year's best music videos....
  
  
• Toronto International Dragon Boat Festival
  Toronto International Dragon Boat Festival
  The Toronto International Dragon Boat Race Festival , is an annual dragon boat regatta, first held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1988. It developed from the Canadian International Dragon Boat Festival held in Vancouver, BC. An associated festival highlights Asian and other culture in Toronto.-...
  
   - Centre Island
• Art of Jazz Celebration
• Fête de la Musique
  Fête de la Musique
  The Fête de la Musique, also known as World Music Day, is a music festival taking place on June 21.-History:The idea was first broached in 1976 by American musician Joel Cohen, then employed by the national French radio station France Musique. Cohen proposed an all-night music celebration at the...
  
   (World Music Day) - June 21 annually. Musicians from all over the world perform free concerts throughout the city
• Taste of Little Italy
• Markland Wood
  Markland Wood
  Markland Wood is a residential neighbourhood located in Etobicoke, in the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is bounded by Etobicoke Creek to the west, Elmcrest Creek to the east and surrounded by the Markland Wood Country Club...
  
   Annual General Meeting is held on the second Monday but the Markland Homes Association to review the year's activities and plan for the next year

July

• Toronto Fringe Festival
  Toronto Fringe Festival
  The Toronto Fringe Festival is an annual theatre festival, featuring uncensored plays by unknown or well-known artists, taking place in the theatres of Toronto. Several productions originally mounted at the Fringe have later been remounted for larger audiences, including the Tony Award-winning...
  
  , Toronto's largest theatre festival
• Honda Indy Toronto
  Honda Indy Toronto
  The Honda Indy Toronto is an annual IndyCar Series race, held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Originally known as the Molson Indy Toronto, it was a Champ Car World Series race held annually from 1986 to 2007...
  
   at Exhibition Place
  Exhibition Place
  Exhibition Place is a mixed-use district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, by the shoreline of Lake Ontario, just west of downtown. The 197–acre area includes expo, trade, and banquet centres, theatre and music buildings, monuments, parkland, sports facilities, and a number of civic, provincial,...
  
  
• Toronto Loyal Orange Lodge Parade Oldest annual parade anywhere in North America, since 1821, celebrating Ulster-Scot heritage
• Caribana
  Caribana Festival (Canada)
  Scotiabank Caribbean Carnival Toronto, formerly known as Caribana, is a festival of Caribbean culture and traditions held each summer in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Annually, the festival draws hundreds of thousands of tourists from around the globe to Toronto's lakeshore...
  
   is North America's largest street festival, showcasing Caribbean/West Indian culture (in some years early August).
• Beaches International Jazz Festival
  Beaches International Jazz Festival
  The Beaches International Jazz Festival is a 10-day music festival held each year in the lakeside “Beach” community of Toronto in the month of July. The Festival takes place across a number of venues. Stage concerts are held in several different parks within the area and also along a 2 kilometer...
  
   - The Beaches
  The Beaches
  The Beaches is a neighbourhood and popular tourist destination located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located on the east side of the "Old" City of Toronto. The original boundaries of the neighbourhood are from Fallingbrook Avenue on the east to Kingston Road on the north, to Woodbine Avenue...
  
  
• Summerlicious
  Summerlicious and Winterlicious
  Summerlicious and Winterlicious are two food festivals that are held each year in Toronto, Canada. Winterlicious runs during the first two weeks of February, typically one of the poorest times of the year in terms of restaurant attendance. Summerlicious occurs at the start of July, also a slow time...
  
  
• Corso Italia - Italian Street Festival on St Clair West.
• http://rushcon.totem-media.com/ RushCon - North America's largest Rush fan convention.

August

• Roncylicious, a showcase of the diverse flavours of Roncesvalles Avenue, running August 4th through 31st, with over thirty participating businesses. http://roncylicious.com/
• The Canadian National Exhibition
  Canadian National Exhibition
  Canadian National Exhibition , also known as The Ex, is an annual event that takes place at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada during the 18 days leading up to and including Labour Day Monday. With an attendance of approximately 1.3 million visitors each season, it is Canada’s largest...
  
   (CNE, or "the Ex").
• The Taste of the Danforth
  Taste of the Danforth
  Taste of the Danforth is a yearly festival held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the Greektown area along Danforth Avenue for a period of three days in August, spawned from the Taste of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Started in 1994, it celebrates Greek food and culture every second...
  
   festival showcases the mostly Greek culture of The Danforth and has expanded to include other cultures of the area.
• The Mabuhay Philippines Toronto Summer Festival- the largest celebration of Philippine heritage and culture in Canada.
• Festival of South Asia - A festival of the South Asian culture of Gerrard India Baazaar.
• Muslim Fest- Festival Celebrating the Best in Muslim Art & Entertainment - Annual Festival Celebrating the Best in Muslim Art & Entertainment.
• Toronto International Dance Festival
• Toronto Buskerfest- A festival of Street Performers.
• Taiwanfest previously known as TCF (Taiwanese Cultural Festival).
• Toronto's Festival of Beer- Toronto Beerfest in Historic Fort York.
• Markland Wood
  Markland Wood
  Markland Wood is a residential neighbourhood located in Etobicoke, in the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is bounded by Etobicoke Creek to the west, Elmcrest Creek to the east and surrounded by the Markland Wood Country Club...
  
   Annual Family Fun Day is held on the second Saturday in August, celebrating summer with clowns, The Toronto Police and Firefighters, games, face painting and lunch.

September

• Italian Walk of Fame - Stars unveiled annually every Labour Day on College Street in the heart of Little Italy.
• Go Global Expo - Study, Work and Volunteer Overseas! September 18th Vancouver, September 24th-25th Toronto, October 1st Montreal. Canada's best attended go abroad event! Absolutely FREE! It's time to GO GLOBAL!
• The Canadian International Air Show
  Canadian International Air Show
  The Canadian International Air Show is an annual air show that has been held at the conclusion of the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto since 1949...
  
   -off CNE grounds over Lake Ontario
  Lake Ontario
  Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded on the north and southwest by the Canadian province of Ontario, and on the south by the American state of New York. Ontario, Canada's most populous province, was named for the lake. In the Wyandot language, ontarío means...
  
  
• The Terry Fox Run
  Terry Fox Run
  The Terry Fox Run is an annual non-competitive charity event held in numerous regions around the world in commemoration of Canadian cancer activist Terry Fox, and his Marathon of Hope, and to raise money for cancer research....
  
  
• The Toronto International Film Festival
  Toronto International Film Festival
  The Toronto International Film Festival is a publicly-attended film festival held each September in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2010, 339 films from 59 countries were screened at 32 screens in downtown Toronto venues...
  
   is considered one of the big three global film events, with Cannes
  Cannes Film Festival
  The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...
  
   and Berlin, with more screens and more films than either.
• The Roncesvalles Polish Festival, September 13th and 14th http://polishfestival.ca
• The Beach Celtic Festival http://thecelticfestival.com on September 13th, 2008 from 10 a.m. - 5:00 pm in Kew Gardens in the Beach to celebrate the Celtic-Canadian Heritage.www.thecelticfestival.com
• Cabbagetown Fall Festival, - Held the second weekend in September.
• Virgin Festival
  Virgin Festival
  The Virgin Fest is a rock festival held in the United States and Canada, a spin-off from the V Festival held in the UK...
  
  , based on the British festival
• Word on the Street - Canada’s largest, annual outdoor book and magazine festival
• The Student Life Expo-Canada's largest post-secondary lifestyle fair showcased to over 50,000 senior highschool students
• Markland Wood
  Markland Wood
  Markland Wood is a residential neighbourhood located in Etobicoke, in the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is bounded by Etobicoke Creek to the west, Elmcrest Creek to the east and surrounded by the Markland Wood Country Club...
  
   Annual Community Social is held on the third Friday to celebrate the Markland Wood residential community's outreach.
• Queen West Art Crawl - A yearly celebration of artists and art lovers on the hippest street in Canada. From Bathurst to Roncesvalles. September 16th - 19th, 2010.
• Toronto Vegetarian Food Fair - Considered the largest in North America, held annually at Harbourfront Centre.
• Study and Go Abroad Fair http://www.studyandgoabroad.com - University fair in Canada, held bi-annually in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.

October

• EKRAN Toronto Polish Film Festival - an annual event dedicated to the promotion of Polish film, art and culture
• Nuit Blanche Toronto - an all-night free celebration of contemporary art
• The Toronto Marathon
  Toronto Marathon
  The Toronto Marathon, held annually in May, is a race from Mel Lastman Square, in the north end of Toronto, to Queen's Park. The race was initially called the Canadian International Marathon, and was first held in 1995 under its current organizer. The origins of the event trace back to 1977. In...
  
   - run from North York to downtown Toronto
• Canada's Walk of Fame Induction - Induction Ceremonies for the walk of fame that acknowledges the achievements and accomplishments of successful Canadians. Ceremony can occur in July to October.
• Toronto Fashion Week - Fashion Week Beauty by L’Oréal Paris is the premiere fashion event in Canada started in 1998 which brings together media, industry, buyers and consumers to view the season’s collections in the Fashion Capital of Canada, Toronto.
• International Festival of Authors
• Toronto International Antiquarian Book Fair - The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of Canada
  Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada
  The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of Canada is the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers’ affiliated organization of professional antiquarian booksellers in Canada...
  
   presents the only international antiquarian and collectible book fair in Canada, featuring dealers from across Europe and North America.
• The Toronto Private School Expo

November

• The Toronto Santa Claus Parade
  Toronto Santa Claus Parade
  The Toronto Santa Claus Parade is a Santa Claus parade held annually in mid-November in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. More than a half million people attend the parade every year. The parade starts at 12:30pm and ends approximately 3:30pm...
  
   (Started in 1904 with just a single float, it now boasts over 24 floats, 24 bands, and 1700 participants. It is one of the biggest productions in North America, and broadcast to many countries around the world.)
• Cavalcade of Lights
  Cavalcade of Lights Festival
  Cavalcade of Lights at Nathan Phillips Square has an impressive 43-year history in Toronto. The event was created in 1967 to showcase Toronto's newly constructed City Hall and Nathan Phillips Square....
  
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• The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair
  Royal Agricultural Winter Fair
  The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, colloquially called The Royal, is an annual fall fair in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which takes place over two weeks in November...
  
  , an annual fall fair started in 1922.
• Aboriginal Festival  It is held every year in Rogers Center in Toronto.
• Eh!U Meet the Europeans - Toronto European Film Festival

December

• First Night.
• Reviving the Islamic Spirit
• Markland Wood
  Markland Wood
  Markland Wood is a residential neighbourhood located in Etobicoke, in the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is bounded by Etobicoke Creek to the west, Elmcrest Creek to the east and surrounded by the Markland Wood Country Club...
  
  Annual Christmas Caravan & Food Drive with food, clothing, toys and money going to various charities. Most years there is over 17 thousand pounds of food collected for the Toronto food banks.

Defunct

• Celebrate Toronto Street Festival
• World Stage International Theatre Festival - runs from January to June
• Le Salon du Livre de Toronto- French Book Fair

External links

• Toronto Festivals & Events Directory
• Toronto Festivals & Events at a Glance
• Toronto Events List