The Christmas Gifts Expo is a massive Christmas market featuring a wide range of artisan and other unique products at Chilliwack Heritage Park in December.
The market is one of the largest of its kind in the Lower Mainland (if not in all of Western Canada). In 2025, the market runs from Friday, December 5th, to Sunday, December 7th.
TIP: Another great event hosted by the same organization is the Taste of the Valley, which is a food-themed market. It takes place at Chilliwack Heritage Park in February. If you like markets and food, you’ll want to attend this event too!
For more details about this event, see the Christmas Gifts Expo‘s website.
Christmas Gifts Expo in Chilliwack
The Christmas Gifts Expo is a giant holiday market in Chilliwack. It celebrates its 11th year in 2025. The market features around 300 vendors selling everything from toys to clothing, food, home décor and more. If you like Christmas shopping, you’ll love this event!
Local organizers run the market expo event. The main organizers live in Chilliwack, and an impressive number of the vendors are from right nearby in the Fraser Valley. Many of the vendors we spoke to when we went were from either Chilliwack or Abbotsford. We also met vendors from elsewhere in the Lower Mainland and a couple from Vancouver Island.
The Christmas Gifts Expo is truly a first-rate event and highly recommended. The products, their quality and the selection are impressive. It’s a fabulous place to do one’s Christmas shopping, to find unique and wonderful gifts, and to support local businesses and artisans.
(Note: This event is hosted by the same people as the A Taste of the Valley food and drink-sampling market-style event at Chilliwack Heritage Park in February. They also run the Train & Hobby Show in the fall.)
What To Expect
The Christmas Gifts Expo features a couple of hundred vendors each year. Most of them are local artisans selling everything from handmade clothing to paintings, wood products and food. There are also vendors selling a wide variety of other unique gifts, like spices, hats, imported handbags, and health & beauty products.
Chilliwack Heritage Park is a massive place and the Expo takes up a large part of the facility. The expo typically fills two main halls with vendor stalls selling pretty much everything you can think of.
When we went, we saw all kinds of beautiful hand-crafted wood products, homemade baked goods, and handmade jewellery. There were also locally produced exotic sauces, canned goods, art, handmade sock puppets, candles, and a million other perfect gift and stocking-stuffer items.
Most Lower Mainland Christmas craft markets have about 20 to 80 vendors. The Christmas Gifts Expo is much bigger than that!
If you’re looking for holiday gifts for the whole family, the Christmas Gifts Expo is a Christmas shopper’s paradise.
For full details about the event, see the Christmas Gifts Expo website.
Event Details in 2025
The Christmas Gifts Expo takes place at Chilliwack Heritage Park, 44140 Luckakuck Way. The venue is located just off Highway 1.
In 2025, the event runs on Friday, December 5th, from 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm, Saturday, December 6th, from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm, and Sunday, December 7th, from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.
Admission is $5 for the entire weekend, which allows you to come and go on all three days with the same ticket. Children ages 5 and under get in free.
Give what you can for parking. Proceeds from parking donations support the event’s charity partners. Most vendors accept electronic payments (e.g., Square), though cash is always welcome. An ATM is available on site. Aisles are spacious for strollers and mobility scooters. Service dogs only are permitted.
The Expo collects donations for the Salvation Army Food Bank. You can bring non-perishable food items or make a cash donation, and donors are entered into hourly draws for vendor gift prizes.
Christmas Gifts Expo Video
For an idea of what the Christmas Gifts Expo looks like, check out the following video. It shows scenes from the 2024 event.
Other Information
For more details about this event, see the Christmas Gifts Expo website.
The Christmas Gifts Expo is put on by All About Expos which is a small Chilliwack-based business that helps other small businesses showcase their products. All About Expos also puts on events at other times of the year.
For ideas about other things to do in the area, see our articles about Chilliwack and the Fraser Valley.
Other articles that might be of interest include the following:
- Vancouver’s December Calendar
- Vancouver’s Best Christmas Activities
- Lower Mainland Christmas Craft Fairs
