10/13/2026
Kingsville has thrown a party for migrating birds for 57 years. The birds have never RSVP'd. They come anyway.
Migration Festival runs Friday, October 16 to Sunday, October 18. The short version:
Friday: the Great Migration Kick-Off at the Grovedale Arts and Culture Centre. Doors at 6 pm, live music, pulled pork, $20.
Saturday: a walking parade at Lakeside Park at 10, the Migration Marketplace in the Lakeside Park Pavilion from 10 to 4, and a Wild Goose Chase for the kids (and competitive adults). Out at the Jack Miner Sanctuary from 10 to 6: tours, a straw maze, the trout pond and a B**r Market from noon.
Sunday: pancake breakfast at Jack Miner's 8 to noon ($5 donation), a classic car show 10 to 2, and birds of prey with the Canadian Raptor Conservancy.
All weekend, painters set up easels around town for the Great Migration Paint Out, and Sunday from 1 to 5 their work goes on sale at Grovedale. Buy the one with the lighthouse. Or the goose. There's always a goose.
Save this. Full schedule at kingsville.ca.
Next: what the lake brings in.
Festival weekend fills up. The Grove Hotel is on Main Street, walking distance from most of it.
Photos: Archives of Ontario, RG 65-35 (OGL-ON); Andrea_44 and Mark Nenadov (CC BY 2.0); Chris Woodrich (CC BY-SA 4.0; slide 6 edit shared under CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons.