You can celebrate the long-awaited Victoria Day long weekend with an epic fireworks display at Canada’s Wonderland.
Toronto’s unofficial kickoff to summer is right around the corner as the city’s residents get ready to hit cottage country, head to one of the city’s beautiful beaches or party it up at a series of social functions to celebrate Victoria Day.
Maybe it would be more accurate to say that we’re celebrating the first long weekend of the year with warm weather more or less guaranteed, but if there’s anyone out there genuinely celebrating Queen Victoria’s birthday, consider me corrected.
Fireworks are lighting up the sky next Sunday, May 18! 🎆
Spend the day riding your favourite rides 🎢 AND end your night with a firework show at 10 p.m.! 🎇 Get your tickets* and make the most of your long weekend! https://t.co/58XJ9q4LAJ
*Fireworks included in admission pic.twitter.com/tsUAnWD2ZN
— Canada’s Wonderland (@WonderlandNews) May 10, 2025
Of all the many wonderful ways people like to spend their time on the holiday, the best of all could quite possibly be rallying your friends and family and checking out a massive fireworks show. What says “summer is here” better, or more loudly, than fireworks, anyway?
The City of Toronto will be putting on a free show from Ashbridge’s Bay Park at 10 p.m. on Monday, May 19, which will be visible to much of the city’s south-facing units, particularly in the east end, but if you’re looking to ramp up the excitement factor, there’s nowhere better than Canada’s Wonderland.
After the park officially opened for the season on May 8, bringing with it the promise of a brand-new, record-breaking coaster in the coming months and a weird and wonderful suite of new food offerings — not to mention a little bit of drama — it’s officially time to mark the start of the season with a dazzling fireworks display.
The Canada’s Wonderland Victoria Day fireworks show, which uses custom explosives and an original soundtrack, is lighting up the skies at 10 p.m. on Sunday, May 18, so you won’t have to worry about waking up early for work the next morning.
It should also bear noting that, because the city’s fireworks are happening on Monday night — not ideal for those of us getting back to work the next day — and Canada’s Wonderland is on Sunday, you don’t even have to pick one or the other.
Why not double up your firework intake on a warm and sunny weekend? As Drake so famously once said, YOLO.
You’ll have to buy admission into the park to attend the fireworks show (unless you want to try to spot it from the other side of the fence), but that just means that you can spend the whole day at Canada’s Wonderland and close it out, quite literally, with a bang.
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