Lakeview Farmers’ Market 2026: Sundays at the Small Arms Building

Local produce, live music & a season full of themed community days on Mississauga’s waterfront

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Over 40 local farm and artisan vendors set up every Sunday at the historic Small Arms Inspection Building, with a packed calendar of themed activation days running alongside the regular market all season long.

🎉 Themed activation days 🎵 Live music 👨‍👩‍👧 Family friendly 🅿️ Large free parking lot

💡 Check the 2026 activations schedule below before you go — several Sundays layer in a themed event (Plant Day, Pie Day, the Garlic Lovers’ Festival) on top of the regular market, and they’re worth planning your visit around.

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✨ Why This Market Is Worth the Trip

Most weekly farmers markets settle into a comfortable routine — same vendors, same layout, week after week. Lakeview Farmers’ Market takes a different approach. Yes, there’s a strong, consistent core of local farm vendors every single Sunday, but layered on top is one of the more ambitious community programming calendars of any market in the GTA, courtesy of CreativeHub 1352, the non-profit that runs it.

The setting helps too. The market takes over the grounds of the Small Arms Inspection Building, a striking industrial-era heritage building on the Mississauga waterfront that’s been converted into a community arts and culture hub. It’s the kind of space that regulars describe as beautifully maintained and genuinely community-oriented — people come back year after year, and it’s popular enough as a venue that it also hosts weddings and concerts when the market isn’t running.

What makes 2026 stand out is the sheer range of themed Sundays woven into the season — a Pride Day pop-up market and craft stations, a Plant Day with native-species education booths, a Hub of Africa and the Diaspora cultural celebration with dance workshops and traditional games, a Community Pie Contest, and the market’s own Garlic Lovers’ Festival. It’s rare to find a weekly farmers market that also functions as a rotating cultural festival calendar.

🏭 A Market Inside a Piece of Wartime History

The Small Arms Inspection Building was built during the Second World War as part of a factory complex where thousands of workers — many of them women — inspected rifles produced for the war effort. Long after the factory closed, the building sat mostly forgotten until the City of Mississauga and CreativeHub 1352 restored it as a public arts and culture space, preserving its industrial bones while turning it into exactly the kind of flexible, welcoming venue a weekly market needs.

That layered history is part of why the building draws such a range of uses beyond the market itself — weddings, candlelight concerts, and tabletop gaming tournaments all take place here between market Sundays, and reviewers consistently point to the well-maintained, climate-controlled interior and generous natural light as standout features of the space.

🎉 2026 Themed Activation Days

The market runs every Sunday from 9 AM to 2 PM, May 24 through October 25. On top of that steady weekly rhythm, these Sundays bring extra programming worth planning around.

🛍️ What You’ll Find

A steady core of returning vendors anchors the market every Sunday, with rotating guest vendors and artisans filling out the roster week to week.

Fresh farm produce Microgreens Maple syrup & honey Preserves & sauces Empanadas & prepared food Handmade artisan goods Tea & specialty drinks Live music

Regular Sunday vendors include Kalas Family Farm, Murray’s Farm, Reyes Farms, Gamble Farm Microgreens, Sunshine Farms, Marigold’s Maple Syrup & Local Honey, Moose River Preserves, SaSa Naturals, Nature’s Cup Tea, Weeta’s Empanadas, and Zesty Fusions, with seasonal additions like Bains Orchard joining starting in July. The Lakeview Artisan Market also runs bi-weekly alongside the Farmers’ Market, adding over thirty additional makers selling ceramics, jewellery, textiles, and prints from across the GTA.

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🚗 Getting There & Parking

The market sets up at the Small Arms Inspection Building on Lakeshore Road East in south Mississauga’s Lakeview neighbourhood, close to the Lake Ontario waterfront.

Parking: A large, free on-site lot serves the venue, and visitors consistently note there’s plenty of room even on busy event days.

💡 A Few Things Worth Knowing Before You Go

🎉 Check the activation calendar first. A regular Sunday and a themed Sunday like Pie Day or Plant Day feel very different — pick your date based on what’s happening that week if you have a particular interest.

📱 Scan in for the loyalty draw. It takes less than a minute at the welcome table, and three visits’ worth of stamps puts you in the running for $250 in market credit.

☂️ Some Sundays move outdoors specifically. Community Play Day and a few other dates are called out as outdoor-focused, so check the forecast and dress accordingly.

🥧 Save room for September and August specials. The Garlic Lovers’ Festival and Pie Day both draw bigger-than-usual crowds — arrive earlier than you normally would on those dates.

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