If you are looking for Ontario Miniature Gaming Conventions, then you have come to the right place. During the pandemic, this page did not get much love. Now that things are opening up again where I live, I figured I would update it again.
Updated October 23, 2022
Welcome to the Ontario Miniature Gaming Conventions Page
I absolutely love wargaming conventions. Getting miniatures games out into the public’s eye is essential in my opinion to growing the hobby. To help encourage local gaming, we dedicate this page to list all of the upcoming miniature game conventions that we know of in Ontario (Canada). These conventions can focus mainly on Miniature Wargames, Board Games with Miniatures and even RPGs. My main concern is that your convention will feature miniatures games in some capacity.
This page is part of my attempt to help get the games we love out in front of new people.
If you have an upcoming event that you want listed here, please email us the details.
Upcoming Ontario Gaming Conventions in 2022
November
Sword and Brush
Date and Location: Toronto, Ontario – November 12.
Website: Sword and Brush
Incoming 2022 – Bolt Action Doubles
Date and Location: St. Catharines, Ontario – November 19.
Website: Facebook Page
December
No Events
Upcoming Ontario Gaming Conventions in 2023
January
None
February
March
Breakout 2023
Date and Location: Toronto, Ontario – March 17 to 19
Website: Breakout 2023
Hotlead
Date and Location: Stratford, Ontario – March 24 to 26
Website: Hotlead
Hotlead wins its place in my mind as the best gaming convention in South Western Ontario. I absolutely love going to this event.
April
Ragnarok 3.0
Date and Location: Kitchener, Ontario – April 22 to 23
Website: Ragnarok
This events strives to be the biggest gaming event in the Waterloo Region. They cover games of all sorts from LARPs and RPGs to Miniatures Games and Board Games.
May
CanGames
Date and Location: Ottawa, Ontario – May 19 to 21, 2023
Website: CanGames
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Events to Keep an Eye On…
KEGSCon
Date and Location: Chatham Ontario – September 24th.
Website: KEGSCon 2022 Event Page.
Ran by the Kent-Essex Gaming Society.
LardEhs Game Day 3
Date and Location: Hamilton, Ontario – October 22
Website: Announcement on TwoThreeSixMM.
A Day of TooFatLardies Games.
The Hamilton Tabletop Gaming Bazaar – Sales Day
Date and Location: Hamilton, Ontario – October 23
Website: Facebook Page for the Event
A large garage sale of miniature gaming products in a Legion Hall.
On Parade
Date and Location: Toronto, Ontario – June 12, 2022
Website: ON PARADE
A toy soldier and model show that also includes miniatures from wargames put on by the Ontario Model Soldier Society.
Breakout
Date and Location: Toronto, Ontario – July 15 – 17, 2022
Website: Breakout
Breakout is a large gaming convention that looks to cover Board Games and RPGs. It also looks like it covers a number of Fantasy Flight Games’ miniatures games.
Canadian Tabletop Championships
Date and Location: Ottawa, Ontario – May 6 to 8, 2022
Website: Canadian Tabletop Championships
This event looks to be a very large and ambitious Tabletop Gaming Tournament Event for many different games. Games listed include Bolt Action, Flames of War, 40K, Age of Sigmar, X-Wing, Armada, Legion, Infinity, Team Yankee, Malifaux and more. They also have a Facebook Page too.
Broadsword
Date and Location: Hamilton, Ontario – Generally a few times a year
Websites: Visit their Facebook Page for Events and the Hamilton Tabletop Gaming Society Page (which is the group that runs the event).
Gryphcon
Date and Location: Guelph, Ontario – Generally in April
Website: Gryphcon
This is an event that mostly focused on RPGs and board games, but there is usually some miniatures games there too.
Sword and Brush
Date and Location: Toronto, Ontario – Generally in September.
Website: Sword and Brush
Ontario Miniature Gaming Conventions Reports
The following are links to all of the Conventions for which I wrote up a report. If you haven’t been to a certain convention before and want to get a feel for what the show is like, hopefully these links can help you out.
2019 Ontario Miniature Gaming Conventions
2018 Ontario Miniature Gaming Conventions
2017 Ontario Miniature Gaming Conventions
2016 Ontario Miniature Gaming Conventions
Until next time, Happy Gaming Everyone!!!