The city is home to the annual Old Time Fiddling and Step Dancing Festival that happens Labour Day weekend at Riverside Park. There are often up to 1400 RVs parked there for the week preceding the event. Award-winning fiddler/step dancer April Verch is a Pembroke native.
About Pembroke, Ontario (ON)
Pembroke (2006 population 13,930; CA population 23,195) is a city at the
confluence of the Muskrat River and the Ottawa River in the Ottawa Valley in
eastern Ontario, Canada. Pembroke is the seat of Renfrew County.
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