- When:
- Back Fri 11 · 3pm-10pm
- Where:
- 138 Victory Ship Way, Shipbuilders' Square, Lower Lonsdale
- Cost:
- Free entry
Every Friday through September 11, Shipbuilders' Square turns into the North Shore's easiest date: a free-entry night market of food trucks, live bands and a waterfront beer garden with the downtown skyline glittering across the inlet. The move is to arrive by SeaBus, which is a mini ferry date in itself, graze the trucks, and drift out to Burrard Dry Dock Pier as the sun drops behind the city. Free to enter, runs 3 to 10pm, and the crowd is all golden-hour good mood.
- When:
- On now until 10pm
- Where:
- 2901 E Hastings St, Hastings Park
- Cost:
- $20 to 25 per person
The Fair at the PNE is the city's great end-of-summer ritual, and as a date it writes itself: share a bag of mini donuts on the way to the wooden coaster, argue over ring-toss strategy, catch the SuperDogs because you are only human, and finish with the Summer Night Concert that comes free with admission. Gates open at 11am and the grounds run well into the evening, so an afternoon ticket quietly becomes a whole day. Adults ride for about thirty dollars at the gate, less online, with ride passes extra.
- When:
- Final day · on now until 8pm
- Where:
- Water St, Water Street, Gastown
- Cost:
- Free
On Sundays through the summer, Gastown closes Water Street to cars and hands it back to people: live music, sidewalk pop-ups, and the neighbourhood's patios spilling into the street, all along the cobblestones between the steam clock and the old brick warehouses. It is a free, plan-free date, wander hand in hand, follow the music, and pick a patio to land on. The prettiest, most photogenic stretch of the city with no traffic to dodge.
