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Ontario Culinary Tourism Award Finalist
Brockville’s Island Breakfast Nominated for Ontario Culinary Tourism Award The ever-popular Island Breakfast on Refugee Island has become award worthy, being named among three finalists in the Ontario Culinary Tourism Event of the Year. The winner will be announced at Ontario’s Annual Tourism Summit in Ottawa to be held November 21-22 in Ottawa. The awards, […]
Tips to get the most out of Brockville Ribfest
Brockville Ribfest is quickly becoming one of Brockville’s favourite annual festivals. Located on the waterfront in Hardy Park, this fun-filled-family-food-festival hosts eight ribbers including: Ribs Royale, Dinosaur BBQ, Crabby’s BBQ, Gator BBQ, Silver Bullet, Billy Bones, Camp 31, and Jack The Ribber. There are also tons of food and merchandise vendors, a bavarian garden, activities in […]
St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival Opens for the 2016 Season
The highly anticipated St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival opened on Saturday with ‘Julius Caesar’ to a large crowd of eager audience members. Located at the Prescott harbour at an outdoor amphitheatre, the play is perfectly located for a Roman experience, and what better way to enjoy theatre than with the beautiful St. Lawrence River as a […]
Brockville Arts Centre 2016 Pricedex Summer Series
Every summer the Brockville Arts Centre hosts a summer series of tribute artists who emulate some of the greatest musical performers of our time. This year’s series line-up includes: Legends of Las Vegas: A Tribute to Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin featuring the Vegas North Orchestra June 29 at 8pm June 30 at 2pm & […]
Explore The Brock Trail
The Brock Trail is a paved walking and cycling path that runs along Brockville’s waterfront, extends west to St. Lawrence Park, and continues up through town to the north side of the 401 highway.k Trai Starting at the eastern end, Centeen Park is a popular park for swimming and picnicking, and is also a favourite […]
Summer 2016 Kick-Off Weekend
With sunny days approaching, Brockville is getting ready to welcome Summer with a number of kick-off events signalling the start of what should be a busy tourism season. The Brockville Farmers’ Market is having their grand opening this weekend, which is a great sign of warmer weather and summer approaching. After two months of being […]
Aquatarium Grand Opening
Please join us in Brockville starting on Friday, May 6th to help celebrate the grand opening of Brockville’s newest waterfront attraction, The Aquatarium. Grand opening weekend calendar of events: Friday May 6 9:30am Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Outside 11:20am Smudging Ceremony Otter Habitat 11:30am Otter Feeding Time Otter Habitat 4:00pm Early Closing Saturday May 7 11:30am […]
Theatre in the 1000 Islands
World Class Venue – World Class Entertainment Treat yourself to a show in one of Canada’s finest medium sized, heritage theatres in Canada. The Brockville Arts Centre presents a wide variety of top quality live entertainment year round. The 710 seat theatre is located in the heart of the historic downtown. This popular venue is […]
Boat Cruising in the World Famous 1000 Islands
The 1000 Islands constitute an archipelago of 1864 islands that straddles the Canada-U.S. border in the St. Lawrence River as it emerges from the northeast corner of Lake Ontario. They stretch for about 80 km downstream from Kingston, Ontario. The 1864 islands range in size from over 100km2 to smaller islands occupies by a single residence, […]