FEO 2024 Award Winners and Top 100
Best Greening of a Festival or Event
With an Operating Budget of $500,000 or more
The Toronto Waterfront Marathon
Best New Festival or Event
Operating Budget of $100,000 or less
Goderich Salt & Harvest
Operating Budget of $100,000 or less
Town of LaSalle Last Call Before Fall
Operating Budget of $100,001 to $500,000
Whiskey Wonderland
Best Promotional Campaign
Operating Budget of $100,000 or less – Destination Markham Jazzlicious Winterfest
Operating Budget of $100,001 to $500,000 – Hamilton Day
Operating Budget of $500,001 or more – Toronto Waterfront Festival
Best Social Media Campaign
Hamilton Day
FEO Impact Award
Operating Budget of $100,000 or less – City of Vaughan Ontario Culture Days
Operating Budget of $100,000 or less – Sainte-Marie among the Hurons - National Day of Truth and Reconciliation
FEO Innovation Award
Operating Budget of $100,000 or less – Owen Sound River District Wheel & Ride
Operating Budget of $100,001 to $500,000 – Niagara Grape and Wine Festival – Cool As Ice Gala
Sponsor of the year
Operating Budget of $100,000 or less – TD Toronto Jazz Festival sponsored by: OLG
Operating Budget of $100,001 to $500,000 – City of Newmarket sponsored by: Mercedes-Benz I Newmarket
Best Volunteer Program
Supercrawl
Municipality of the Year
Population less than 50,000
Town of LaSalle
Population more than 50,000 and less than 150,000
Town of Newmarket
Population of 150,000 or more
City of Hamilton
Hall of Fame
Ann Barker – Ticketpro Canada Inc.
Dave Miller – Burlington Sound of Music Festival
Rosemarie Garrity O’Brien – Town of Collingwood
Family Volunteer of the Year
The Moyle Family – Niagara Grape and Wine Festival
Youth Volunteer of the Year
Marc & CJ Marcos – Niagara Falls Winter Festival of Lights
Finn McManus – Riverfest Elora
Volunteer of the Year
Judi Denny – City of Oshawa Peony Festival
2024 Top 100 Ontario Festivals & Events:
RTO 1 - SOUTHWEST ONTARIO TOURISM REGION
Amherstburg River Lights Winter Festival
Amherstburg Uncommon Festival
Carrousel of the Nations
Chatham Retrofest – Rims & Ribs
Eat and Drink Norfolk
Essex Fun Fest
Kingsville Migration Fall Festival
LaSalle Strawberry Festival
Norfolk County Fair & Horse Show
Western Fair London
RTO 2 - NIAGARA FALLS AND WINE COUNTRY TOURISM REGION
Niagara Falls Winter Festival of Lights
Niagara Grape and Wine Festival
Pelham Summer Chill Series
Pelham Summerfest
Port Colborne Canal Days Marine Heritage Festival
St. Catharines Holi Festival of Colour
TD Niagara Jazz Festival
RTO 3 - HAMILTON, HALTON AND BRANT TOURISM REGION
Because Beer Craft Beer Festival
Brantford International Villages Cultural Festival
Downtown Milton Summerfest
Dundas Cactus Festival
Hamilton Day
Hamilton Winterfest
Paris Fair
Re-Enactment of the Battle of Stoney Creek
St. George AppleFest
Supercrawl
RTO 4 - HURON, PERTH, WATERLOO AND WELLINGTON TOURISM REGION
Blyth Festival Season
Fergus Scottish Festival & Highland Games
Goderich Celtic Roots Festival
Goderich Children’s Festival
Guelph Hillside Festival
Kultrun World Music Festival St. Jacobs
Riverfest Elora
The Mount Forest Fireworks Festival
RTO 5 - GREATER TORONTO AREA TOURISM REGION
#BollywoodMonster Mashup
Brampton KiteFest
Carassauga Festival of Cultures
Celebrate Toronto
Mississauga Italfest
Muslimfest
TD Jerk Food and Music Festival (Jerkfest)
SING! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival
Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival
Sugar Shack T.O
TD Salsa in Toronto Festival
Toronto Caribbean Carnival
Toronto Waterfront Festival
RTO 6 - YORK, DURHAM AND HILLS OF HEADWATERS TOURISM REGION
Aurora’s Christmas Market
Aurora's Haunted Forest
Aurora’s Multicultural Festival
Brooklin Harvest Festival
Caledon Day
Markham Canada Day
Markham Fair
Markham-Milliken Children’s Festival
Orangeville Blues and Jazz Festival
Oshawa Kars on King
Oshawa Peony Festival
Richmond Hill Canada Day
Richmond Hill Retro Ribfest
Stouffville Holiday Market
Stouffville Ribfest
Vaughan Celebrates Concerts in the Park
Vaughan Celebrates Canada Day
Vaughan Celebrates Winterfest
Whitchurch-Stouffville Antique & Classic Car Show
RTO 7 - BRUCE PENINSULA, SOUTHERN GEORGIAN BAY AND LAKE SIMCOE TOURISM REGION
Barrie Automotive Flea Market
Barrie Winterfest
Clearview Small Halls Festival
Collingwood Art Crawl
Collingwood Sidelaunch Days
Collingwood, Wasaga Beach and Clearview Township - Trail Tunes
Gran Fondo Lake Huron
International Plowing Match & Rural Expo
Kempenfest
Lighthouse Blues Festival
Lucknow’s Music in the Fields
Ontario's Best Butter Tart Festival Midland
Owen Sound River District Holiday Magic
Pirates of the Bay Discovery Harbour
Port Elgin Pumpkinfest
Pumpkinferno Discovery Harbour
Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons – First Light Festival
Town of Bradford West Gwillimbury Carrot Fest
RTO 8 - KAWARTHA AND NORTHUMBERLAND TOURISM REGION
Buckhorn Festival of the Arts
Port Hope Arts Festival
Port Hope Candlelight Festival
RTO 9 - SOUTHEASTERN ONTARIO TOURISM REGION
Belleville Waterfront & Multicultural Festival
Quinte West Hops on the Water
RTO 10 - OTTAWA AND COUNTRYSIDE TOURISM REGION
Ottawa Jazz Festival
The Great India Festival
RTO 11 - HALIBURTON HIGHLANDS TO THE OTTAWA VALLEY TOURISM REGION
Bancroft Rockhound Gemboree
Hike Haliburton Festival
Tweed & Company Theatre Season
RTO 12 - MUSKOKA, PARRY SOUND AND ALGONQUIN PARK TOURISM REGION
Bala Cranberry Festival
Festival of the Sound
RTO 13 - NORTHERN ONTARIO TOURISM REGION
Fort William Historical Park - Anishinaabe Keeshigun
Thunder Bay Live on the Waterfront
Thunder Bay SnowDay on the Waterfront