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CP Holiday Train
ROLLING INTO KAMLOOPS — Dec 16 —
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The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train will return to the rails this season on its first cross-continent tour in three years, following virtual concerts in the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021. The train will again raise money, food and awareness for local food banks in communities along the CP network.
The beneficiary locally is the Kamloops Food Bank, with donations of food and cash urged for those attending the celebration. The CP Holiday Train is scheduled to pull in behind Sandman Centre on Friday, Dec. 16, at 4:45 p.m.
“I’m grateful to the CP team members who adapted during the COVID-19 pandemic to deliver two exceptional virtual Holiday Train shows and to all those who continued to donate while we kept community members safe,” said Keith Creel, CP’s president and chief executive officer. “The Holiday Train is all about families and communities coming together to celebrate the season and help those in need. We are excited to be back out on the rails and in our communities, taking these two beautiful trains across our network and sharing the joy that comes with gathering in the spirit of giving.”
The 2022 tour began on Nov. 23 with the Holiday Train’s first-ever Maine shows in the communities Jackman, Brownville Junction and Hermon in the northeast U.S. state. Also for the first time, the Holiday Train hosted shows on Nov. 24 in Lac-Megantic, Sherbrooke and Farnham, Que., the first Canadian stops of 2022.
The tour will feature 168 live shows, with a full schedule is available at cpr.ca/holidaytrain. This year’s performers will include Alan Doyle, Tenille Townes, Mackenzie Porter and Lindsay Ell. Details about this year’s artists and which performers will play which shows are available at cpr.ca/holidaytrain.
Holiday Train shows are free to attend. CP asks attendees to bring a cash or non-perishable food donation if they’re able to do so. Local food shelves will set up collection stations at each event, with all donations made staying with the local food bank to help people in need in the community. Because local food shelves buy food at a discount, cash donations can go further than food donations to help those in need.
Since the Holiday Train program launched in 1999, it has raised more than $21 million and collected fivemillion pounds of food for community food banks across North America.
