The Ball’s Falls Thanksgiving Festival is back, as a fantastic modified experience! Guests will enjoy a classic family favourite, and a longstanding Niagara Tradition in a safe and familiar way!
STEP 1: An Early, Online Experience:
The Festival Online Shopping Store is now OPEN for an advanced shopping experience from many of your favourite craft, artisan and food vendors. Guests can shop online until Oct 4, and pick up their purchased goodies at Ball’s Falls Conservation Area during Thanksgiving weekend.
More vendors and products are being added daily – so stay tuned!
STEP 2: Modified, Live Festival Returning to Ball’s Falls on Thanksgiving weekend:
The 47th Annual Ball’s Falls Thanksgiving Festival will bring back many of your favourite features, including 50 in-person craft and artisan vendors, delicious foods, craft beverages and wines, local farmers’ market vendors, live acoustic music and children’s entertainment, historical demonstrations, heritage tours and nature hikes.
Enjoy the beauty of the fall along the Niagara Escarpment as you take in the sights, sounds and smells of the Thanksgiving Festival and explore the colourful forested trails.
With restrictions in place to keep everyone safe, the 2021 Thanksgiving Festival offers a unique opportunity to hike the trails, tour the heritage village, admire the spectacular scenery and waterfalls, and support local small businesses.
The Festival will comply with all provincial and local COVID-19 regulations and public health guidance according to the provincial framework in place, to ensure a safe experience for all attendees and vendors.
Dates and Times
Friday, October 8 – Monday, October 11
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Advanced registration is required for admission to the festival.
To reserve your Festival tickets, please visit https://thanksgivingfestival.ca/shop-now/.
PLEASE NOTE: General Admission tickets for Thanksgiving Weekend do not include Heritage Tour Reservations and these must be purchased separately at https://thanksgivingfestival.ca/heritage-tours/
Volunteers are invited to help plant nearly 2,000 trees throughout the month!
- September 18th
- September 25th
From 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
VOLUNTEER APPLICATION IS REQUIRED as spots are limited.
ABOUT:
The Glanbrook Conservation Committee and the NPCA have been working to restore a parcel of land that was acquired adjacent to Binbrook Conservation Area in August 2019.
As part of a comprehensive plan to restore the property and enhance ecology through vegetative communities, expected to include wetlands, native grassland, and bird-friendly shrubs to name a few, more than 300 shrubs were planted in 2020 and 3,200 in early 2021.
Join us as we continue this important work on SEPT 25!
Email Kerry Royer, Community Outreach Coordinator, directly at kroyer@npca.ca and fill out our volunteer application!
These trees have been obtained through the generous grant from TD Friends of the Environment and the support of Earth Day Hamilton Burlington.
