Labour Day Weekend

The Canmore Highland Games fosters and encourages our Celtic culture and tradition in all its forms – dance, music and sports.

Highland Games in Canmore is one of the first Highland Games known and was organized by King Malcolm III Canmore (1058-1093). Held at a fairly flat meadowland (the Brae O’Mar) along the River Dee, this sporting event was used for a royal contest to find the swiftest and strongest man in the kingdom with the necessary stamina to carry Malcolm’s messages across the land.