Pride 2022 Festivals Across Canada

Queen City, Saskatchewan

Queen City Pride Festival takes place from the 3rd to the 12th June 2022.

In 1989, the City of Regina proclaimed the first official "Pride Weekend". This year we celebrate the 31st anniversary of Regina's first official Pride.
Join Queen City Pride Festival for a jam-packed 10-day festival showcasing events and activities organized by Regina's gender and sexually diverse community.

Pride is not just a parade or festival. For Regina’s 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, it’s the first time they felt truly able to be themselves. It’s the day or week or even month to be unafraid. It’s connecting with each other: laughing, dancing, crying, fighting together. It’s a feeling.

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Fierte Canada Pride Winnipeg takes place from the 27th May to the 5th June 2022.

Pride Winnipeg, in conjunction with Fierté Canada Pride (FCP), is excited to announce the dates for the second National Fierté Canada Pride Festival hosted here in Winnipeg this summer.

June 4 & 5, 2022 – The Fierté Canada Pride Festival will be held on the Forks and Parks Canada grounds and will include the following zones:

FCP Canada Village: Held in the North field of Parks Canada, this will include Canada Stage, a second Beer Gardens, Taste of Canada food vendors, booths hosting Prides from across the country, sponsors, and Pride Mart.

Winnipeg Festival Field: Located in the main part of the Forks grounds, this will include our Winnipeg Stage, Beer Gardens & Substance Free zone, food vendors, sponsors, and community partners as well as our KidsZone which will have children’s entertainment and snack vendors.

Indigenous 2 Spirit Field: Located behind Johnston Terminal will be the home of the largest dedicated Indigenous festival grounds in Pride Winnipeg history. Two full days of specialized programming will be held celebrating traditional ceremony, dance, and culture.

June 5, 2022: Pride Rally & Parade: Pride Winnipeg will be starting off the celebrations on Sunday, June 5th with a rally. Join our speakers in giving words to our feelings of celebrations and advocacy. Pride Winnipeg is happy to announce that once again our Parade route will be down Portage Ave, beginning at the corner of Memorial and Portage Ave.

Toronto, Ontario

Toronto Pride takes place over the weekend 24th - 26th June 2022.

Pride Toronto is happy to announce that planning for a physical Pride Month and Festival Weekend is in full swing for 2022 – The full month of programming will begin on June 1, concluding with the annual Festival Weekend on June 24-25-26, 2022.

The long-awaited return will include all of your signature favourites including the annual Trans March, Dyke March, Bi+ Pride Programming, Blockorama by Blackness Yes, Pride Parade, StreetFair, and multiple stages featuring over 300 2SLGBTQ+ artists.

Toronto, Ontario

Global Black Pride (GBP), takes place from the 27th to the 31st July 2022.

Global Black Pride (GBP), the first global Pride event that brings together Black LGBTQI+ communities across all continents, will hold its first ever physical programming in Ontario’s capital, Toronto, in 2022. This global event will celebrate black culture and diversity, providing a space for activists and community-based organizations across the globe to engage and reflect.

Pride Toronto is honoured to be partnering with GBP, Blackness Yes!, and community agencies and leaders to bring the first in-person event to the City of Toronto on July 28-31, 2022. This additional programming will help build on the incredible work Blackness Yes! Has been doing for the community for many years and brings additional attention and learnings to the experiences of the Black 2SLGBTQ+ community worldwide.

Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria Pride takes place from the 23rd June to the 2nd July 2022.

Victoria Pride supports a vibrant and empowered LGBTQ2+ community in Greater Victoria through visibility, collaboration, ongoing conversation and celebration.

Victoria Pride Society is privileged to serve our communities on the traditional lands of the Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples.

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Halifax Pride takes place from the 14th to the 24th July 2022.

Halifax Pride Parade will take place on Saturday, July 16th, starting at 12pm in downtown Halifax. Approximately 150 entries are featured in the parade, which takes about two hours to view from beginning to end.

The parade can be viewed along the route beginning from Rainnie Street and continuing to Barrington Street, Spring Garden Road, South Park Road, and finally finishing at the Garrison Grounds, on Bell Road.

St. John’s, Newfoundland

St. John’s Pride Week 2021 will be taking place from 12th to 21st July 2022.

St. John's fair city, but we want to commit to a year round sequence of activities, panels, and campaigns, dedicated to improving our province.

Parade: July 14th, 2022

Vancouver, British Columbia

Vancouver Pride takes place on Sunday the 31st July 2022.

Vancouver Pride 2022 theme is 'Together Again'.

It has been three years since our last in person Pride Parade. At that parade in 2019 three federal leaders marched together.

A celebration. A protest. A party. A place to take up space. An opportunity to don our finest and shiniest. A chance to recognize how far we have come and reflect on where we need to go from here. 

Montréal, Quebec

Montréal Pride takes place from 1st to 7th August 2022.

Montréal Pride festival offers an exciting, fun-filled 7-day program: Community Day, free shows including a Mega T-Dance, festivities in many of the Village's establishments and the famous Pride Parade.

Since 2007, at the initiative of Montréal’s LGBTQ+ communities, the Montréal Pride Festival has promoted their rights and celebrated their cultural wealth and social advances. The largest gathering of the communities of sexual and gender diversity (SGD) in the Francophone world works locally on a daily basis while serving as a beacon of hope for people living in LGBTQ+ hostile regions of the globe. In 2019, the festival generated a total of 3 million entries for all their events from tourists all around the world.

Montréal Pride Parade will be held on Sunday, August 7th. It is the flagship event of the festival, with the highest visibility and attracting the largest number of festival goers.

Windsor, Ontario

Windsor-Essex Pride takes place from 3rd to 7th August 2022.

Windsor-Essex Pride Fest aims to promote equality and diversity through all of its events. We use theatre, music, art and entertainment to raise awareness of discrimination and the issues and difficulties affecting the lives of LGBTIQ2S+ people around the world. Our festival is an explosion of Pride in the heart of Windsor at Lanspeary Park on Ottawa Street, attracting more than 6,600 people in a celebration of diversity. Through this we aim to promote a sentiment in favour of equality, uniting people in a celebrating atmosphere where all are welcome, and fostering a sense of community within the Windsor-Essex LGBTIQ2S+ population.

The Parade is scheduled for Sunday, August 7, 2022 at 11am.
Show your PRIDE at Windsor-Essex’s most colourful event! All are welcome!

The parade route will begin at Ottawa Street and Argyle Road. From Argyle Road, turn left on to Ottawa Street and proceed west down to Ottawa Street to Langlois Avenue, turn right on Langlois Avenue to 1250 Langlois Avenue located on right-hand side to the final destination of Lanspeary Park where the fun continues with our Pride Day activities, featuring great food, vendors and fabulous entertainment.

Festival Venue: Lanspeary Park on Ottawa Street

Fredericton, New Brunswick

Our annual Fierté Fredericton Pride Festival will take place between August 12 - 21, 2022.

Pride will culminate in our parade and community festival on Sunday, August 21, 2022.

Kamloops, British Columbia

Kamloops Pride takes place from the 22nd to the 28th August 2022.

Parade: August 28th, 2022