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). Last year it took place on the weekend of December 6th, 7th and 8th. It’ll be back around the same time in 2025 too.
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 anniversary in 2025! The market features around 300 or so vendors selling everything from toys to clothing, food, home décor and more. If you like Christmas shopping you’ll love this event!
The market is a locally-organized and managed 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 a good number of vendors selling a wide variety of other unique and wonderful things too 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. There are typically two main rooms full of 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-type items.
Most Lower Mainland Christmas craft markets have between about 20 and 80 or so vendors. The Christmas Gifts Expo is mucb bigger than that!
At the event folks who bring a donation of non-perishable food are entered into a draw for door prizes. The draws typically feature prizes from some of the vendors present at the event. All donations benefit the local food bank so even if you don’t win it’s for a great cause! You get one chance to win for every food item you donate (or at least that was the case this last year).
If you’re looking for holiday gifts for the whole family, the Christmas Gifts Expo is a great place to be! It’s a Christmas shopper’s paradise!
For full details about the event, see the Christmas Gifts Expo website.
Event Details
The event takes place in Chilliwack at the Chilliwack Heritage Park at 44140 Luckakuck Way. The venue is located just off Highway #1.
Dates and times for the 2024 Christmas Gifts Expo were the following:
- Friday, December 6th, 2024: 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm
- Saturday, December 7th, 2024: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
- Sunday, December 8th, 2024: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Admission to the event is around $5 per person, which is good for the whole weekend. You can come back on a second day (or go to all three) with the same ticket!
Children ages 5 and under get in for free. Vendors who participated last year paid about $150 for a 10-foot x 10-foot space for the full weekend. Vendor participation pricing in 2024 will likely be similar. Parking is pay by donation.
Christmas Gifts Expo Video
For an idea of what the Christmas Gifts Expo looks like, check out the following video. It shows scenes of the event from 2024.
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
