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Ontario: cities, venues and capacity

Where to put an event in Ontario. 63 cities, 880 venues, and the practical differences between them.

seats at the largest venue mapped anywhere in OntarioOne dot ≈ 1,000 attendees

Rogers Centre states the largest capacity in the province. The dots show what event67 would bill at that head count, and where the price stops.

Ontario in figures

Ontario is a province of Canada of about 14 million people. Toronto is the capital.

The mapped inventory comes to 43 exhibition or convention halls, 73 dedicated conference and function spaces, 222 arenas and stadiums, 163 theatres and concert halls and 379 independent event spaces.

Ontario spans 2 time zones — Toronto time and Winnipeg time. Publish one zone in the app and say which it is, or half the room arrives an hour out.

The largest stated capacity anywhere in the province is 39,150, which is the practical ceiling for a single-room programme here.

Capital
Toronto
has a guide
Cities covered
63
59 with their own guide
Venues mapped
880
44 convention or exhibition

The largest venues in Ontario

Ranked by stated capacity, then by how much the record can prove. Open data rarely publishes a capacity for a convention centre, so a hall may sit below an arena here without being the smaller room.

VenueCityTypeStated capacity
Rogers CentreTorontostadium39,150
Mississauga Celebration Square AmphitheatreMississaugaconcert hall30,000
TD Place StadiumOttawastadium24,000
Hamilton StadiumHamiltonstadium22,500
Varsity StadiumTorontostadium21,767
BMO FieldTorontostadium21,566
Scotiabank ArenaTorontoarena19,800
Canadian Tire CentreKanataarena19,153
TD ColiseumHamiltonarena19,000
York Lions StadiumTorontostadium12,500
Maple Leaf GardensTorontoarena12,473
TD Place ArenaOttawaarena9,862

Ontario city by city

63 in the dataset, largest first. Each guide covers that city's venues, its airport, its local time and a worked price for an event of that size.

CityPopulationVenues mapped
Toronto2,794,356254
Ottawa1,017,44966
Mississauga717,96127
Brampton656,48025
Hamilton569,35330
London422,32434
Markham338,5039
Vaughan323,10315
Kitchener256,8858
Windsor229,66023
Oakville213,7598
Richmond Hill202,0222
Burlington186,9483
Nepean180,0007
Oshawa175,3839
Greater Sudbury166,00415
Gloucester150,0125
Barrie147,82914
Guelph143,74015
Whitby138,5011
Cambridge138,4797
St. Catharines136,80314
Milton132,9796
Kingston132,48530
Ajax126,6665
Orléans125,9377
Waterloo121,4367
Thunder Bay108,8439
Brantford104,68811
Chatham103,98814
Bowmanville101,4274
Pickering99,1862
Niagara Falls94,4159
Kanata90,0009
Newmarket87,9426
Peterborough83,65112
Lindsay79,2472
Caledon76,5812
Stoney Creek76,3822
Sault Ste. Marie72,0519
Sarnia72,0477
Norfolk County67,4909
Halton Hills62,9511
Aurora62,0574
Welland55,7507
Belleville55,07115
North Bay52,66214
Cornwall47,8453
Innisfil43,3266
Timmins41,1456
Stratford33,23221
Fort Erie32,9013
Orangeville30,1674
Collingwood24,81114
Brockville22,1165
Huntsville21,1479
Midland17,8174
Bracebridge17,3055
Kenora14,9672

One more town has a venue worth its own guide

The town itself is too thinly mapped for a city guide, but the venue publishes enough to stand on its own.

Also in Ontario, with nothing mapped yet to build a guide from: Ottawa South, Thornhill and Willowdale. They appear here rather than as pages with three facts on them.

What an event costs here

A Ontario programme at 950 activated attendees — sized to Rogers Centre in Toronto, the largest stated capacity in the Ontario dataset — prices like this. Nothing is charged for the first 50, and nothing at all is charged past 1,000.

activated attendees
950activated attendees
billable, after the free 50
900billable, after the free 50
for the whole event, at CA$7 each
CA$6,300for the whole event, at CA$7 each

Where this data comes from

  • Geographic data © GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  • Venue data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
  • Administrative attributes and the population figure from Wikidata, CC0 (Wikidata (P1082)).
  • Contains information from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census, used under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
  • Retrieved 3 September 2026. event67 has no commercial relationship with any venue listed.

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What it costs

Free up to 50
activated attendees, on one live event
CA$7
per activated attendee beyond 50
CA$6,650
the most one event can ever cost, whatever happens past 1,000

Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.

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Questions people actually ask

Which Ontario city is best for a conference?

It depends on how many people you need to seat and how they arrive. Toronto has the deepest venue list in this province. The table above ranks every covered city by how many venues are mapped in it, which is the closest proxy to choice you will get before you start calling.

How many event venues are there in Ontario?

880 venues across 63 cities are mapped in this dataset, of which 44 are convention, exhibition or conference facilities. That is what open data records, not a complete registry — small function rooms inside hotels and community buildings are consistently under-mapped everywhere.

What does event67 cost for a Ontario event?

950 activated attendees means 900 billable after the free 50, so CA$6,300 for the event. The rate is CA$7 per activated attendee beyond the first 50, and the total for one event stops at CA$6,650 however many more attend. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.

What is the biggest venue in Ontario?

Rogers Centre, at a stated 39,150. That is the practical ceiling for a single-room programme anywhere in the province; above it you are splitting the audience across buildings or looking outside Ontario.

Does Ontario span more than one time zone?

Yes — 2: America/Toronto and America/Winnipeg. Publish the schedule in the venue's zone, name the zone in the app, and every attendee's phone converts it correctly from there.

Running something in Ontario?

Pick the city, then let the app do the schedule, the invites and the arrivals. Free for your first 50 activated attendees.