Festival du Voyageur

Festival du Voyageur
StatusActive
GenreWinter festival
Date(s)February 16-25, 2024
FrequencyAnnually
VenueVoyageur Park
Location(s)Whittier Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Years active55
Inaugurated1969
Attendance76,000 (2023)
Budget$4.1m (2023)
Websiteheho.ca

The Festival du Voyageur is an annual 10-day winter festival that takes place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The event is held each February in Winnipeg's French quarter, Saint-Boniface, and is western Canada's largest winter festival. It celebrates Canada's fur-trading past and unique French heritage and culture through entertainment, arts and crafts, music, exhibits, and displays.

The word "Voyageur" refers to those who worked for a fur-trading company and usually travelled by canoe. In the case of Festival du Voyageur, the title of "Official Voyageur" is given to ambassadors of the festival.[1]

  1. ^ "Official Voyageurs". Festival du Voyageur. August 29, 2016. Retrieved June 27, 2021.