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The Canadian-Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) Holiday Train is returning next month! This annual train, filled with live entertainment and covered from top to bottom in dazzling lights, will visit communities across North America (including a pit stop in Toronto) from Nov. 21 to Dec. 20, raising money, food and awareness to support local food banks.
At each stop, professional musicians will play free concerts from the train’s brightly decorated stage. As it’s the holidays, expect a mix of traditional and modern holiday-themed songs!
The events are free to attend, but attendees are encouraged to make a monetary o food donation to attend. Since 1999, the Holiday Train program has raised more than $24.3 million and more than 5.3 million pounds of food for North American food banks. Best of all — all donations raised at a Holiday Train stop remain in that community.
On the morning of Nov. 29, the train will kick off in Belleville, Ont., before making stops in Trenton, Brighton, Bowmanville and Oshawa, and ending the day in Toronto (at 750 Runnymede Rd., at Runnymede Rd. and St. Clair Ave. W.). From 8:30-9 p.m., Torontonians can listen to live music from Tyler Shaw and Shawnee Kish! Shaw is a Canadian singer/actor who will likely perform hits from his 2021 holiday album (A Tyler Shaw Christmas) and Kish is a Canadian Mohawk singer who was nominated for the Contemporary Indigenous Artist of the Year Juno Award in 2022.
If you can’t make the performance on Nov. 29, the train will pass through Vaughan on the morning of Nov. 30 before trekking to Barrie.
Unfortunately, guests won’t be able to ride the Holiday Train, but photos are encouraged! Make sure to get to the stop on time — the train has places to be to spread holiday cheer and won’t be deviating much from its schedule!
Click here for more details and here for more holiday events in the city.
