Plan an Event

Corporate · how to plan in Toronto & the GTA

Holiday parties, team building, conferences, trade shows, launches, galas, picnics, retreats and hybrid events.

Client Appreciation Conferences & Conventions Galas & Award Nights Grand Openings Holiday Parties Hybrid & Virtual Events Picnics & Family Days Product Launches Retreats & Offsites Team Building Trade Shows & Booth Activations

Everything tagged for corporate events. Executive assistants and HR leads start with the holiday party hub; marketers with trade shows; and anyone reporting upward with the ROI calculator.

Everything on EventPlans.ca for Corporate: planning guides, ideas, lessons from the free Academy and the vendors who work these events in Toronto and the GTA.

Where to start

Set the budget with the budget calculator (it shows HST and contingency).
Build the dates backwards with the timeline generator.
Shortlist rooms in the venue directory and acts with the entertainment finder.
Run the day from a run of show.

Across Canada

Listings outside the Greater Toronto Area, by province. More cities are being added.

Newfoundland and Labrador

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Venues

St. John’s Convention Centre

St. John's

In-house catering

A downtown convention centre with about 47,000 sq ft of divisible meeting space, linked by pedway to the Delta hotel.

Nova Scotia

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Venues

Halifax Convention Centre

Halifax

In-house catering · Near transit

A downtown convention centre in the Nova Centre with more than 120,000 sq ft of event space and Rick Hansen accessibility certification.

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Venues

Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21

Halifax

A national museum in the former ocean liner terminal at Pier 21 that rents harbour-view halls and meeting rooms for weddings, banquets…

Quebec

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Venues

Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec

Quebec City · 300+ guests

In-house catering · Free parking

Quebec's national fine arts museum in Battlefields Park, with its own catering and private exhibition access.

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Venues

Québec City Convention Centre

Quebec City · 300+ guests

Québec City's convention centre, with about 295,000 sq ft of usable space including a 75,000 sq ft exhibit hall.

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Venues

Fairmont Le Château Frontenac

Quebec City · 300+ guests

In-house catering

A historic hotel in Old Québec with more than 40,000 sq ft of event space, in-house banquet menus and a wedding team.

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Venues

Marché Bonsecours

Montreal · 300+ guests

Bring your own caterer

A 19th-century market building in Old Montréal with four event halls (about 27,000 sq ft).

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Venues

Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth

Montreal · 300+ guests

A large downtown convention hotel with 950 rooms and suites and about 84,000 sq ft of space in 36 meeting rooms.

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Venues

Palais des congrès de Montréal

Montreal · 300+ guests

Near transit

Montréal's convention centre, with 113 meeting rooms and about 353,000 sq ft of meeting space next to the Place-d'Armes metro station.

Ontario, outside the GTA

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Venues

Fairmont Château Laurier

Ottawa · 300+ guests

A historic railway hotel next to Parliament Hill and the Rideau Canal, with 36,000 sq ft of space in 16 meeting rooms.

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Venues

Canadian War Museum

Ottawa · 300+ guests

A national museum on LeBreton Flats that rents its lobby and other spaces for receptions and dinners, with caterers chosen from an…

Saskatchewan

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Venues

Saskatchewan Science Centre

Regina

In-house catering

A science centre in a former power plant in Wascana Park that rents its IMAX theatre, exhibition hall and boardrooms, with catering…