Best Promotional Campaign
$100,000 or less
Braden's Hot Chocolate Festival
$100,000-$500,000
Art in the Park, Rotary Club of Windsor (1918)
$500,000 or more
Western Fair, Western Fair District
Best New Festival or Event
$100,000 or less
Sault Ste. Marie Science Festival, Science North
$100,000-$500,000
TD Niagara Jazz Festival
$500,000 or more
Fusstoberfest, Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest
Best Community Partner Outreach Program
$500,000 or more
Supercrawl, Wesley Urban Ministries
Best Greening of a Festival or Event
$100,000 or less
Braden's Hot Chocolate Festival, Greening Marketing
$100,000-$500,000
Canada's Largest Ribfest
$500,000 or more
Sound of Music Festival
Sponsor of the Year
$100,000 or less
Braden's Hot Chocolate Festival, Hillfield Strathallan
$100,000-$500,000
Live on the Waterfront, Thunder Bay Credit Unions
$500,000 or more
The Word on the Street Toronto, TD Bank Group
Best Fundraising Idea
Festival of the Sound
Best Social Media Campaign
MuslimFest, Festive Currents
Best Youth Initiative
Norfolk County Fair & Horse Show
Best Volunteer Program
Hillside Festival
Best New Single Sponsorship Opportunity
Luminato Festival, Absolut (Corby Spirit and Wine)
Service Excellence Awards
Modu-Loc Fence Rentals - Foundational Product Provider
The Feldman Agency - Entertainment – Agency
Grand River Inflatables & Games - Alternative Entertainment Providers
Student Leadership Award
Louise Rowe
Niagara College
2017 Top 100 Festivals and Events
Alight at Night (Upper Canada Village)
Aurora's Haunted Forest
Aurora's Tree Lighting Ceremony
Bancroft Rockhound Gemboree
Barrie Automotive Flea Market
Barrie Winterfest
Belleville Waterfront & Ethnic Festival
Big on Bloor Festival of Arts & Culture
Blue Mountains Apple Harvest Festival
Bon Soo Winter Carnival
Brampton New Year's Eve
Buckhorn Fine Art Festival
Bushplane Days Festival
Canada Day Celebrations
Canada's Largest Ribfest
Canada's Only Guitar Trail at Blue Mountain
Canadian National Exhibition
Canal Days Marine Heritage Festival
Carrot Fest
Carrousel of Nations
CeleBRAMPTON
Celebrate Canada Day Brampton
Christmas Tree Lighting
Burlington's Canada Day
Burlington's Children's Festival
Collingwood Elvis Festival
Doors Open Ontario
Dundas Cactus Festival
Dundas International Buskerfest
Eat & Drink Norfolk
Erin Fall Fair
Fergus Scottish Festival & Highland Games
Festival of the Sound
First Light at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons
Fort Fright (Fort Henry)
Glengarry Highland Games
Harbourfest
Havelock Country Jamboree
Hillside Festival
Huron Fringe Birding Festival
International Plowing Match & Rural Expo
It's Your Festival
Jambana™ One World Festival
Jazz Sudbury
Jerkfest (jerk Food Festival)
Kingston Sheep Dog Trials Festival
Kirkland Lake Winter Carnival
Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest
LaSalle Strawberry Festival
Lighthouse Blues Festival
London Wine & Food Show
Luminato Festival
Meaford Scarecrow Invasion & Family Festival
Mississauga ItalFEST 2016
MuslimFest 2016
Niagara Falls Canada Day Celebration
Niagara Falls Santa Claus Parade
Niagara Grape and Wine Festival
Norfolk C ounty Fair & Horse Show
OPG Winter Festival of Lights
Orangeville Blues & Jazz Festival
Oshawa Peony Festival
Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival
Pelham Summerfest
Pumpkinferno (Upper Canada Village)
RBC Bluesfest
Redpath Waterfront Festival
Re-Enactment of the Battle of Stoney Creek
Rogers Cup Presented by National Bank
SALSA at Blue Mountain
Scotiabank Caribbean Carnival Toronto
Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
Simcoe Christmas Panorama
Sing! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival
Small Halls Festival
Smooth Truck Fest
SnowDay
Sound of Music Festival
SoundBites: Mississauga Celebration Square
St. George AppleFest
Stewart Park Festival
Stratford Festival
Streetsville Founders' Bread & Honey Festival
Supercrawl
TD Kitchener Blues Festival
TD Ottawa Jazz Festival
TD Salsa in Toronto Festival
TD Sunfest: Canada's Premier Celebration of World Cultures
Tecumseh Corn Festival
Telling Tales Festival
The Great Canadian Kayak Challenge & Festival
The Sioux Lookout Blueberry Festival
The Word on the Street Toronto
Toronto International Film Festival
Vaughan WinterFest
Voyageur Winter Carnival
Western Fair
Winona Peach Festival
Winterlude
World Heritage Sunset Ceremonies