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Card shows in Metro Vancouver

Confirmed dates, venues and table counts · last checked 28 October 2026

Search for card shows near Vancouver and the first page of results is a wall of directory sites. They do not agree with each other, several of their rows are shows in Richmond Virginia or Guildford England, and none of them says how big the room is.

Every entry below came off the organizer's own site or their ticket page, and the date, the venue, the hours and the admission are quoted from it. Nothing here is a directory listing copied forward. If a show is not on this list it does not mean it is not happening — it means we could not find a page belonging to the people running it, and section 6 says which ones those are.

In this guide

  1. The next confirmed shows
  2. Who runs them, and how often
  3. Reading a show before you book a table
  4. What to write down on the day
  5. The part that happens on Monday
  6. How this list is kept, and what is not on it

1. The next confirmed shows

Greater Vancouver, every show whose own page we could open. All of them are weekend shows, and the weekday on each organizer's page matches the 2026 calendar — worth checking, because a listing page left over from last year reads exactly the same until you look at what day it falls on.

Two of them say children get in free — nine and under at the Casino show, ten and under at the Vault — which tells you something about who they expect through the door. The others do not say, so assume they charge.

2. Who runs them, and how often

Three operators cover most of the calendar, and knowing which one you are dealing with is more useful than knowing one date.

Neither we nor this page is affiliated with any of them. We have no tables to sell and no cut of a ticket. The links go to their pages, not ours.

3. Reading a show before you book a table

Table prices are the one thing none of these organizers publishes on the page — you ask, and they quote. So the decision gets made on what is published, and three numbers in the list above carry most of it.

The table count is the size of the room, and your competition. A 200-table show has more buyers through it than a 95-table show and also more people selling the same Charizard. If what you bring is common, the small room is often the better room.

The admission price is a filter on who comes. A $20 door costs a browsing family eighty dollars before they have bought anything, so the people who pay it mostly came to buy. A free or cheap door fills the room, which is better for volume in sealed and singles and worse for a table of slabs.

The venue says what the day will be like. A recreation centre or a flea market is a local crowd on foot; a convention centre or a casino conference floor draws from further out and runs longer hours. Neither is better — they sell different things.

What you cannot read off a listing is whether the show was worth it, and that is the only number that decides whether you go back. Which is section 5.

4. What to write down on the day

Four things, and all four have to be captured while the show is happening, because none of them can be reconstructed on Tuesday.

5. The part that happens on Monday

A show is the only kind of selling where everything arrives at once and nothing is written down. You come home with a cash box, a card that you traded for and cannot remember the cost of, and a vague sense that it went well.

The arithmetic that turns that into an answer is the same every time: what came in, minus what the goods cost you, minus what the day cost you. We wrote that out properly in the card show bookkeeping guide, including the rule of thumb for the costs people forget — budget two to four times the table fee for everything else before you call a weekend profitable.

The point of doing it at all is the next calendar. Three shows in, you know which room pays for itself and which one you keep going to out of habit. That is the only reason to keep records of a hobby that has become a business.

6. How this list is kept, and what is not on it

Every entry was read off the organizer's own site or their ticket page on 28 October 2026. Dates, venues and prices move, and a page that is wrong about where to drive on a Sunday morning is worse than no page at all — so follow the link before you go, and treat their page as the one that is right.

These shows appear on directory sites for British Columbia and are not in the list above, because we could not find a page belonging to whoever runs them: a Chonky Card Show, a Guildford show in Surrey, a West Van show listed under Delta, and a Collector Town date in Burnaby. They may well be real and running. We are not going to print a venue and an address we could not stand behind, and a search for the Surrey one returns a show in Guildford, England, which is how these lists go wrong.

Shows across the border in Washington are not here either. That is a different list, and a different currency on the day — see point 3 of section 4.

Where the software comes in

The calendar above is free information and you do not need a product to use it. The four things in section 4 are the part that needs somewhere to go:

Clody is a bookkeeping app built for exactly this — a show is a thing you create before you drive out, sales get attached to it as you make them, the costs of the weekend go on the same show, and the profit on that show is worked out against what the cards actually cost you. It works on a phone at a table with no signal and syncs when you get home.

Free to start, with 14 days of Pro on the house. If you would rather do it in a spreadsheet, section 4 is still the list — a dealer who records which show a sale came from beats one with a subscription who records the date.

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