There is a lot to celebrate over Thanksgiving weekend in Charlottetown. Gather up your family and friends and go out to experience what Charlottetown has to offer this long weekend. Here are just 15 things to do over Thanksgiving Weekend in Charlottetown.
The PEI Fall Flavours Festival
Craving all your Fall Flavours favourites? Whatever your appetite, the 2023 PEI Fall Flavours Festival will feed your foodie desires. Details
October 1-15, 2023
Island Wide
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Victorian-Era Séance (Reenactment)
Visitors will experience a reenactment of the sort of séances once hosted by 19th-century spirit mediums and experience some of the tricks and illusions that enchanted audiences of the past. This participatory history performance will be followed by a talk-back where visitors can ask questions, learn more about the impact these ghostly events had on Victorians, and discover how some of the tricks were accomplished. Details
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdaysm October 5 – 28, 2023
Beaconsfield Historic House, 2 Kent Street
PEI Fibre Festival
The PEI Fibre Festival is a celebration of all things fibre including a marketplace, workshops provided by world class instructors, a rug hooking exhibition, book signings with your favourite designers and Maritime entertainment. Details
October 5 – 7, 2023
Delta Hotel by Marriott, 18 Queen St., Charlottetown
Street Feast Block Party
This is a colourful two-day block party featuring featuring unique creations and quirkiness from some of the city’s favourite local hang outs, including Craft Beer Corner, HopYard, Salvador Dali Cafe, PonyBoat Social Club, Abbiocco, The Trailside, 24STRONG, and Hunters Corner. Kent Street comes alive with the sights and sounds (and smells) of the street party of our collective dreams. Don’t miss tasty food, local drinks, live music, drag shows, party games, live painting, tarot card readings, dance performances, and more. Details
October 6 – 7, 2023
Kent Street (between Great George & Prince Street), Charlottetown
Free
Trunk or Treat
Enjoy a drive-in movie night.The will be prizes for the best decorated car. It’s aways fun to get the family involved. Kids get dressed up and go treating from trunk to trunk we suggest that each car have 300 treats to hand out. (They go fast) Treating wraps up around 7:00PM then the movie starts. Details
October 6 – 7, 2023
PAW Patrol: The Mighty | 7:00 PM
Shrek – [PG] | 8:30PM
Brackley Drive-In, 3164 Brackley Point Road
$32.79
Anne & Gilbert: The Musical
Experience Canada’s greatest love story in the critically acclaimed and widely loved musical Anne & Gilbert. This summer at the Florence Simmons Performance Hall. Details
until October 5, 2023
Florence Simmons Performance Hall, 140 Weymouth Street, Charlottetown
Psychic Fair
Health Within Holistic Centre presents the “Psychic Fair at Beaconsfield.” Offering several different types of card readings – Tarot, Oracle cards, other readings – Inner Child Reading: done with paints, intuitive, and body scan readings. Also, therapists will be offering treatments such as Shiatsu, Thai massage, Reflexology or Reiki.
Details
October 6 – 7, 2023
Beaconsfield Carriage House, 2 Kent Street, Charlottetown
Charlottetown Scarecrow Festival
Set against the backdrop of Charlottetown’s colourful and historic buildings, hundreds of scarecrow installations will line the streets, gather on street corners, pop up in shop windows, and surprise you in other unexpected ways. You can also look forward to self-guided scarecrow tours, haunted ghost walks, live music, scarecrow making workshops, wine tastings, costumed stiltwalkers, harvest dinners, psychic readings, and so much more! Details
October 1 – 31, 2023
Various Locations, Charlottetown
Chef’s Island
Get ready for an epic food adventure at the Delta Hotels by Marriott Prince Edward! Culinary Federation of PEI Chef’s Island brings together the best of PEI’s culinary scene for a night of flavour-packed fun. Explore stations serving up delectable small plates featuring Certified Island Beef and mingle with talented chefs who’ll share their secrets. Prepare for culinary showdowns in the Meyer Canada Quickfire Challenges hosted by comedian Patrick Ledwell, enjoy door prizes by ADL Foods, and don’t forget to cast your votes for the best chef and station décor. Get your crew together and let’s rock this unforgettable celebration of PEI’s food scene at Chef’s Island!
Details
Saturday, October 7, 2023 | 7:00 PM
Delta Hotel by Marriott, 18 Queen St., Charlottetown
$99 / person
Ben Chase – In My Truck Tour
PEI native Ben Chase is returning home from Nashville to his island roots for the Cavendish Beach Music Festival presents; Ben Chase, In My Truck Tour. 19+. Details
Saturday, October 7, 2023 | 7:30 PM
PEI Brewing Company, PEI Brewing Company
$28.50
J.P Cormier
Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, sideman, innovator, recording artist, and multi award winner J.P Cormier for one night. Details
Saturday, October 7, 2023 | 8:00 PM
Trailside Music Hall, 155 Kent Street, Charlottetown
$51.41
5/15 Fermentation Trail
The 5/15 fermentation trail is a chance to visit small scale craftspeople with a passion for creating some of the finest beverages on the island that you can taste and learn about yourself. Whether you like beer, wine, cider, spirits, or mead, there is something for everyone.
Details
June to October
5 craft alcohol producers located 5 minutes from Charlottetown and 15 minutes apart.
Tara MacLean: Song of The Sparrow
Song of the Sparrow is a daring, heartbreaking and provocative memoir of a life filled with music, told with the same raw, open and elegant poetry that Tara’s fans have come to expect. From Tara’s childhood in PEI through her teenage years in BC to her meteoric rise in music, Song of the Sparrow reveals her remarkable strength and shows that a song and a wide-open heart are the best weapons for fighting monsters.
Details
Saturday, October 7, 2023 | 7:30 PM
Sobey Family Theatre – Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown
$34.75 and up
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Ghost Walks
Led by a mysterious gravedigger, this spooky stroll is full of tales about Charlottetown’s historic downtown and its dark, mysterious, sometimes haunted past. Family-friendly experience is available on request. Details
October 6 – 7, 2023 | 6:30 PM
Departing from corner of Water & Pownal Streets, Charlottetown
Adult $20; Child $10
Charlottetown Farmers’ Market
The Charlottetown Farmers’ Market is the place to be on Saturday morning, especially if you are looking for fresh produce for your Thanksgiving Feast. Vendors from across the island come to the market to showcase their work and sell their fresh produce that is in season. Details
Tackle a section of Island Walk
The Island Walk route takes you along the ocean, much of the Confederation Trail, red dirt roads, beaches and through quiet secondary roads throughout PEI. The Island Walk has the perfect landscape, both in terrain and scenery, for those who are looking for a long-distance walking adventure. Because the walk is not technically difficult, it has options for everyone. Details
Options for Thanksgiving Dinner/Brunch
- Top of the Park – Red Shores
- Lobster on the Wharf
- Swiss Chalet – Thanksgiving Features
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