Hobby and collectible shops are the surprise in this category. The Golden Village malls, Aberdeen Centre and Parker Place especially, carry Japanese figures, gachapon machines, model kits, trading cards and blind-box lines with a following that reaches well beyond Richmond.
For the under-tens the map is more conventional: mall stores at Richmond Centre and Lansdowne, big-box aisles at Ironwood, and independents in the neighborhood plazas stocking puzzles, board games and educational toys. Steveston's gift shops keep a small, well-chosen selection aimed squarely at grandparents. Board-game and card-game stores that run in-store tournaments are listed here too, with hours, since event nights are the whole point.
Long-running Richmond hobby shop near the airport, now in a larger unit on Russ Baker Way. Plastic model kits, miniatures and paints, board games, trading cards and comics, with tables for in-store gaming. A destination shop rather than a browse-by.
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Independent toy shop in the Hepworth Block in Steveston Village. Curated rather than crammed: wooden toys, Lego, Playmobil, puzzles, board games, kites and craft kits. The reliable answer to a last-minute birthday present in the south of Richmond.
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Steveston Village is Richmond's Christmas centre, with Winter in the Village running November 19 to December 31, a free Winter Tram in December, a Christmas craft fair, and Santa at the Cannery.
Richmond's 2026 Remembrance Day service is at the cenotaph on the east side of City Hall on Wednesday, November 11: parade 10:20am, ceremony 10:40am, silence at 11am.
Minoru Park's 40th annual Halloween fireworks festival, a 40-year pumpkin patch at Richmond Country Farms, Halloween Hoot at the Nature Park, and Richmond's fireworks rules.
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