Multiple Major Events This Weekend
There will be multiple day comicon and fan events this weekend, as well as two record conventions.
Howloween 2025 will begin on Thursday the 23rd, 2025 and end on the 26th at the Executive Hotel Vancouver Airport in Richmond, BC.
This venue is near the airport and serviced by Routes 401 and 407 on Translink, this venue having it’s own bus stop (56483).
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The Winnipeg Comicon will run from on Friday, October 24th to Sunday, October 26th, 2025 at the RBC Convention Center and you can obtain ticket information by clicking here.
The venue is located in the core and therefore surrounded by multiple bus stops serviced by Winnipeg Transit, the closest being on Broadway Street (Stop Numbers 10593 and 10586).
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Frightmare In The Falls will be a two day event, starting from Saturday, the 25th of October 2025, that will be hosted by the Niagara Falls Convention Center. And admission information can be found by clicking here.
This downtown venue is serviced by multiple routes via bus stop numbers 6152 and 8434 on Niagara Falls Transit.
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The Simcoe Record & CD Show will be held on Saturday, October 25th, 2025 at Royal Canadian Legion Branch 79 from 10am to 3pm and admission will be $2.
This venue is a five animate walk from the Simcoe Library Bus Stop, which is service by the Brampton route on Norfolk County Public Transit. Ask for stop S1a if you are using On Demand Transit, as it is at the venue itself.
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The Toronto Downtown Record Show will again be occurring at the Tranzak Club, this time on Sunday, the 26th of October 2025 from noon to 4pm. And admission will be $7 or $20 for early entry at 10am.
This venue is a six minute walk away from Bathurst Station, where Streetcar Route 511 also terminates.
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The London Record Show will be held at the lower level of Centennial Hall on Sunday, October 26th, 2025 from 11am to 5pm and admission will be $5.
This centrally coated venue has multiple bus stops on London Transit, the closest being at London City Hall, which is serviced by Route 1.
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Please note that Cash may be preferred at these venues. Enjoy your weekend.
Record Conventions Galore!
There will be multiple record conventions and one comicons this weekend, in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec:
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The Vinyl in the Valley Collector Show will be held on Saturday, October 18th, 2025 at the Vernon Elks Lodge from 10am to 3pm and admission is $5 or $10 for early entry at 9am.
The venue is located next to the Downtown Exchange for public transit, where multiple routes on the Vernon Regional Transit converge.
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The Collingwood Comicon will also be held on Saturday, the 18th of October, 2025 from 10am to 3pm. But it will be hosted by the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 63 and admission will be $5 or free for kids 12 and under.
The venue has two bus stops, 243 and 420, which is serviced by the Crosstown route on Collingwood Transit – This is an On Demand service on weekends.
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The Foire Au Vinyles Plateau Record Show will again be held at the Église Saint-Denis on Saturday, the 18th of October, from 10am to 4pm, and admission will be $5 to $10 for early entry at 9am.
The venue, whose entry is at 5075 rue Rivard, is conveniently located next to the Édicule B entrance/exit of the Laurier Metro Station.
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The Boogie Record Fair and Market will be held at Boogie on Queen on Sunday, the 19th of October, 2025, from 1pm to 5pm. And admission will be free.
This venue is serviced by multiple trams and busses on the TTC from stop numbers 6838 and 15348.
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The Calgary Music Collectors Show will again be hosted by the Acadia Recreation Complex, this time on Sunday, the 19th of October, 2025 from 11am to 4pm, and admission will be $5 or 10 for early admission at 9:30am.
The nearest bus stops to the venue are 6414 and 6447, and these are serviced by Route 99 on Calgary Transit.
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The Bowmanvillle CD and Record Show will be held at the event’s regular venue, the Bowmanville Memorial Park Club House, from 10am to 4pm on Sunday, October 19th, 2025, and admission will be free.
This venue is now now only being serviced by Bus Stop 100157, which is a 12 minute walk away from the venue, but by on demand services at Durham Regional Transit. And Go Transit also now operates from that stop.
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The Newmarket Vinyl Record & Collectibles Show will also be held on Sunday, the 19th of October 2025, at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 426 from 10am to 3pm and admission will be $5.
The nearest York Regional Transit bus stops, 2060 and 2075, which are a six unite walk away, are serviced by Route 056.
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The Sarnia Record Show will again be held at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 62, this time from 11am to 3pm on Sunday, October 19th, 2025 and admission will be a Toonie donation to the Legion.
The venue is a six minute walk away from the Bayside Terminal, which is serviced by multiple major routes on Sarnia Transit, as well as Strathroy-Caradoc Inter-Community Transit and Flixbus.
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A major record sale will be occurring at the Kingston Symphony Warehouse this weekend as well, starting on the Tuesday, the 16th of October, 2025.
They will be selling vinyl, cds, DVDs and turntables, including some rarer items in the Platinum Lounge. But it is at a rather out of the way location, the nearest bus stops being a 15 minute walk away on Princess Drive; These are serviced by Route 4 and Route 11 on Kingston Transit and you should note that Route 11 terminates at the Via Rail station.
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Please note that cash may be preferred at these events and that Canada Post has reinstated partial service with rotating strikes. And sorry for the late entry – Family illness.
Lots of Events This Weekend
There will be multiple events this weekend, including one weekend long comicon, two 2 day comicons and two major record conventions.
The Edmonton Expo is a three day comicon event occurring at the Edmonton Expo Center from Friday the 19th of September to Sunday the 21st of September, 2025.
Click here for ticket information. And the venue is a six minute walk away from Coliseum Station, which is also serviced by multiple bus routes on Edmonton Transit.
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The Back Issues Comicon will be hosted by the Christ Church Parish Hall in Dartmouth on Saturday, September 20th, 2025 from 9am to 3pm. And admission will be $3 at the door.
The nearest bus stop the the venue is bus stop number 7389, which is serviced by bus routes 54, 55 and 62 on Halifax Transit.
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The Hamilton Comic Con will be held at the Hamilton Convention Centre on both Saturday the 20th and Sunday the 21st of September and admission information can be found by clicking here.
This venue is serviced by multiple routes on HSR via the Frank A. Cooke Transit Terminal.
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Thundercon will also be a two day event held on the 20th and 21st of September, 2025 but at the Canadian Lakehead Exhibition Center and ticket information can be found on the official Thundercon site.
This venue is serviced by multiple routes on Thunder Bay Transit, but the nearest bus stop to the venue, stop number 1847, is serviced by Route 12.
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The two record conventions will occur on Sunday, September 21st, 2025, one of which will be the Toronto/Mississauga Vinyl Record & Collectibles Show at the Etobicoke Olympium from 10am to 3pm.
Admission will be $5 and the nearest bus stops to this venue are bus stop numbers 1477 and 1493 which are serviced by Bus Route 48 on the TTC.
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The other record convention will be the Woodstock Record, CD, & Music Collectibles Show, which will be held at the Market Building of the Woodstock Fairgrounds from 9:30am to 2:30pm and admission will be $5 or free for kids 12 and under.
The venue is serviced by Route 2-DE on Woodstock Transit.
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Please note that cash may be preferred at these events.
This Weekend’s Events
There will be three events this weekend, two of which will be comicons, and one will be a record convention:
The first event of the weekend, Fan Expo 2025, will begin tomorrow and end on Sunday at the Metro Toronto Convention Center.
Admission information can be found clicking here. And the venue is connected to Union Station, which is serviced by the TTC Metro, GO Transit, UP Express and Via Rail.
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The next event will be the Stratford Record Show on Sunday, the 24th of August, 2025 at The Army Navy Hall from 10am to 3pm. And admission will be a donation to the Stratford-Perth Humane Society.
The venue is serviced by on demand transit by Stratford Transit and is a four minute taxi drive from the city’s VIA Rail Station.
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The last event of the weekend will be the Westcoast Comicon which will be held at the Maritime Labour Center from 11am to 5pm on the 24th of August, 2025. And admission is $15 or free for kids 12 and under.
The nearest bus stops to the venue are 50435 and 50496, which are serviced by multiple routes on Translink.
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Please note that Cash may be preferred at these events and that Tiffany Circle will match Red Cross donations made via this form, in case you wish to donate to the efforts for the wildfires.
This Weekend’s Events
This weekend there will be a free record show in Toronto and two comicons in Ontario, one of which will also be in the Greater Toronto Area:
The Toronto Flipside DJ and Collectors’ Vintage Record Sale will be held at the Sporting Clube Portugues De Toronto on Saturday, August 9th 2025 and this is a free event.
The nearest TTC bus stops are #1007 and #1019, which are served by Route 29 from Jane Station. But the venue is also a 15 minute walk north from the Dundas West station, a line 2 metro station where streetcar routes 504 and 505 terminate. And the value is also an 18 minute walk north from the Bloor Go and UP Station.
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The first comicon, Vaughan Con, will occur for two days at the Bellvue Manor, on Saturday the 9th and Sunday the 10th of August 2025.
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Click here for ticket information. And this venue is serviced by bus routes 020 and 320 on York Regional Transit at bus stop numbers 3818 and 6346 from the Smartcentres Place Bus Terminal, which is located next to the Vaughan Metropolitan Center TTC Station.
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The second comicon, the Orangeville Comicon, will be held at the Orangeville Curling Club on Sunday, the 10th of August 2025 and admission will be $5 at the door.
Free transit is provided by Orangeville Transit and the Walmart next to the venue is serviced by the Green route, which connects to GO Bus Route 37 from the Brampton Bus Terminal at bus stop number 100258.
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Please note that cash may be preferred at these events.
Two Record Conventions and One Comicon
There will be two free record conventions in the Toronto Area, one comicon in Belleville, and all of this weekend’s events will be occurring on Sunday, June 22nd, 2025:
The Outdoor Record Show will be held at the Tranzac Club from 9am to 1pm and admission will be free.
This venue is a seven minute walk from either the Bathurst Subway Station or Spadina Subway Station and it is also a minute away from bus stop numbers 498 and 499, whose busses also service the 511 streetcar on Bathurst via stops 96 and 15518.
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The Bowmanvillle CD and Record Show will be hosted by the Memorial Park Clubhouse from 10am to 4pm and this is also a free event.
The nearest bus stop to the venue, stop number 1499, is an eight minute walk away. And it is serviced by Route 902 on Durham Region Transit, whose site does have a trip planner.
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The Belleville Comicon will be held at the Quinte Curling Club from 10am to 3pm and admission will be $5 or free for kids 12 and under.
A bus stop serviced by Route 8 on Belleville Transit is across the street from the venue.
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