Tails of Summer 2026 is scheduled for Aug 8-9, 2026 in Richmond, Canada. The charity partner is QMUNITY.
The convention's location near the airport simplifies travel:
Curated stays near Executive Hotel Vancouver Airport, Richmond, Canada.
The convention footprint is compact and integrated:
Tails of Summer spent 2025 in organizational development for its 2026 debut. BCAEA's events team focused on securing the Executive Hotel Vancouver Airport contract, drafting the AUP and code-of-conduct documents shared across all BCAEA cons, and standing up the CivetSolutions Convention Master registration portal at reg.tailsofsummer.com.
Historical data and growth track record
| Year | Dates | Theme | Attendance | Charity Raised | Guest(s) of Honor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2027 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | None Announced |
2026 | Aug 8-9 | TBA | TBA | (QMUNITY) | None Announced |
2025 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | None Announced |
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Tier-priority hotel-booking queue + mid-cycle speedrun reshuffle
Tails of Summer ties hotel-booking priority directly to registration class: Patron tier books first (cutoff May 23, 2026), then Sponsor (May 30), with Supporter and general attendees released June 4-5. When the Executive Hotel Vancouver Airport imposed a tighter contract deadline mid-cycle, the con published a live "Booking speedrun engaged" reshuffle directly on the hotel page rather than emailing buyers in isolation, compressing the original ladder into a single early-June window. The mechanic is structurally distinct from Midwest FurFest's flat room-rush, BFF's lottery, and Furry Weekend Atlanta's bundled residential model: at Tails of Summer the tier class itself IS the lodging-priority queue, formalised on the public site and treated as a real-time operations surface. Paired with hard rules against booking outside the block or calling the hotel directly (both of which pull rooms out of the negotiated block and weaken next-year leverage).
BCAEA three-event Society portfolio at inaugural launch
Most inaugural conventions launch as standalone first-year experiments. Tails of Summer launches under the BC Anthropomorphic Events Association (BCAEA), an organisation incorporated under the BC Societies Act that already runs two long-standing regional events: VancouFur (founded 2010, the largest Western Canadian furry convention we have documented) and Vanhoover Pony Expo, a Canadian My Little Pony fandom convention. That gives the 2026 debut sixteen years of operating history, a regulated nonprofit governance structure, and shared back-office infrastructure across reg portal, AUP, code of conduct, and complaints workflow before its first attendee walks in. The multi-event Society posture is rare for North American furcons; most regional cons are single-event nonprofits, and most parent organisations that run two events do not extend to a third format (general furry + pony + adult-only weekend) under one Society umbrella.
AUP codifies $10,000 CAD damages for unauthorized media licensing
Most furcon code-of-conduct documents handle press and media via opt-in photo wristbands or signage in designated zones. The BCAEA Acceptable Use Policy that every Tails of Summer attendee signs at registration goes further: it explicitly bans acting on behalf of any media organisation without signed Board approval, and grants the BCAEA the power to seek up to $10,000 CAD in damages from anyone "found to be distributing or licensing photography for a media organization" without that approval. The concrete dollar figure moves the media clause from house rule to attendee-signed contractual liability, a structural posture closer to commercial event photography contracts than typical convention CoCs. Pairs with the umbrella "Media is not permitted at BCAEA events without signed approval from the Board of Directors" prohibition that covers all three BCAEA cons.
