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Activities

Community BBQ Lunch

Thursday, May 7, 12pm
Esquimalt Recreation Centre

Join us on Thursday at the Esq Rec Centre for a community lunch to get the 2025 Esquimalt Buccaneer Days started!
For more details and to register: https://www.esquimalt.ca/community-events/buccaneer-days-community-bbq 
Everyone welcome starting at noon, but please try to register in advance!

Featuring entertainment from students at Macaulay Elementary School and the Salty Singers from the Maritime Museum of BC.

Midway Carnival

Thursday, May 7, 5pm - 10pm
Friday, May 8, 3pm - 11pm
Saturday, May 9, 11am - 11pm
Sunday, May 10, 11am - 6pm

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West Coast Amusements returns with the Midway in the Archie Browning parking lot. Open Thursday 5-10pm,  Friday 3-11pm, Saturday 11-11pm, and Sunday 11-6pm.

Buccaneer Galley

Friday, May 8, 3pm - after dinner
Saturday, May 9, 11am - after dinner
Sunday May 10, 11am - 4pm

Check out our local community food vendors in the ball diamond! Same hours at the Midway. This year features:

  • Ali Baba Pizza

  • Greek on the Street

  • Hog Dog Hustlin'

  • Kid Sister Ice Cream

  • Trios Truck Extreme Mac and Cheese

  • Esquimalt High School Langos and snacks

Family Music Bingo

Tweens, Teens, Families & Adults
Friday, May 8, 7 pm to 9 pm
Curling Lounge

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Upstairs of Archie Browning in the curling lounge. Doors open at 6pm!​

There will be two games, one general music and a Taylor Swift game too!

 

Single Tickets​ $12 at the door ($10 in advance)

Family Ticket (max 4)​ $32 at the door ($30 in advance)

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Pizza ($5) and snack bar available!​​

PRIZES

McDonald's gift card

$50 Sephora gift card

2x Midway wrist bands & food vouchers

Flying Squirrel passes

$50 Cineplex gift card

$50 Old Navy gift card

Harbour Cats baseball tickets

Pacific FC soccer tickets

Taylor Swift bottles

Taylor Swift Make up and carry

Taylor Swift towers

Taylor Swift blankets

and more to come!

Adult Music Bingo

Saturday, May 9, 7 pm to 10 pm
Jubilee Hall (Gymnasium) in Esq Rec Centre

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Located in the Esquimalt Rec Centre gym (Jubilee Hall). Doors open at 6pm!​

 

Tickets​ $12 at the door ($10 in advance). 

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Beverages run by Bubble Bus Co

Snack bar from 6pm - pizza, donuts, other odds and ends.​

PRIZES

One night stay at Parkside Hotel

BC Lions football tickets

Tudor House Liquor gift card

Harbour Cats baseball tickets

$100 Rosemead gift card

Gorge Vale Golf Club

Cowichan Golf Club

4 Mile Sample Pack

Pacific FC Tickets

Thrifty's gift card

Country Grocer gift card

Red Barn gift card

Lash extension from Outshine

and more to come!

Pancake Breakfast

Saturday, May 9 , 7:30am - 10:00am
Lion's Concession, Bullen Field

Esquimalt Lions kick-off Bucc Days with a pancake breakfast outside the Archie Browing entrance. Join us Saturday from 7:30-10:00am!

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Featuring some music from the Esquimalt High R&B band from 9-10am.

Costume Contest

Saturday, May 9, 10am
Bullen Field

Join us on Saturday on Bullen Field at 10 for a costume contest. Prizes for best adult, kid, family, and pet!

Market Place

Saturday, May 9,10am-5pm
Sunday, May 10, 10am-4pm
Curling Rink

Dozens of vendors with a 'you make it, you bake it, you grow it' mandate. Open Saturday 10-5 and Sunday 10-4 in the curling rink of Archie Browning.

Pirate's Den Family Zone

Saturday, May 9, 11am-3pm
Sunday, May 10, 11:30am-2pm
Bullen Field - SW Corner

Back by popular demand, the Pirate's Den Family Zone for parents and young kids. This year will feature a bouncy castle, ride on vehicles, lawn games, pirate crafts, a photo booth, and more!

 

The Pirate's Den is hosted by Esquimalt Parks & Rec and is free. Esquimalt Neighbourhood House, Theatre Al Dente, Military Family Resource Centre, and Victoria Symphony Instrument Petting Zoo will be supporting with activities on Saturday and Theatre Al Dente, and Pacific FC nd the on Sunday!

Mother's Day Breakfast

Sunday, May 10, 9am-11am
Lion's Concession, Bullen Field

The Bucc Days Organizing Committee will host a second pancake breakfast on Sunday morning at 9am. We'll have mimosas for the mom's and breakfast for the family. Join us at 9am, just before the Little Bucc's Olympics at 10am!

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Little Bucc's Olympics

Sunday, May 10, 10am
Bullen Field

Esquimalt Parks and Rec will be organizing a mini olympics for kids aged ~4 to ~12! Races, relays, and fun; pirate themed as much possible.  Join us Sunday at 10am in Bullen Field! (Parent participation will be required for younger kids).

Corn Hole

Saturday 10 - 12:30, everyone welcome!
Saturday 1pm and Sunday 11am, league tournament
Bullen Field

Greater Victoria Cornhole is back with another tournament! On Saturday come try cornhole from 10-12:30, everyone welcome. Then Saturday 1pm and Sunday 11am come watch the "pros" in the cornhole tournament!​​

Skydiving Demonstration

Sunday, May 10, 3pm
Bullen Field

Sunday at 3pm will feature a skydiver demonstration. We will also have a community group selling plates as a fundraiser. Write your name and scatter it across Bullen Field. The plates that get landed on by the skydivers win a prize!

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