CALGARY, AB, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ – The Canadian Pacific (CP) Holiday Train will return to the rails this season on its first cross-continent tour in three years, following digital live shows in the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021. The practice will once more elevate cash, food and consciousness for native food banks in communities alongside the CP community.
“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,” stated 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 will launch on Nov. 23 with the Holiday Train’s first-ever Maine reveals in Jackman, Brownville Junction and Hermon. Also for the first time, the Holiday Train will host reveals on Nov. 24 in Lac-Megantic, Sherbrooke and Farnham, Que.; the first Canadian stops of 2022. The tour will characteristic 168 reside reveals, together with Toronto on Nov. 29; Bensenville, Ill., on Dec. 2; Davenport, Iowa, on Dec. 3; Kansas City, Mo., on Dec. 4; Calgary on Dec. 11; and a remaining present in Port Coquitlam, B.C., on Dec. 18. A full schedule is out there at cpr.ca/holidaytrain.
Live music is crucial to the CP Holiday Train expertise. This 12 months’s performers will embrace Alan Doyle, Tenille Townes, Mackenzie Porter and Lindsay Ell, to identify a couple of. Details about this 12 months’s artists and which performers will play which reveals can be found at cpr.ca/holidaytrain.
Holiday Train reveals are free to attend. CP asks attendees to carry a money or non-perishable food donation in the event that they’re ready. Local food cabinets will arrange assortment stations at every occasion, with all donations made staying with the native food financial institution to assist individuals in want in the community. Because native food cabinets purchase food at a reduction, money donations can go additional than food donations to assist these in want.
“Food banks and communities across Canada are so excited to see the CP Holiday Train return, as it brings together the City of Calgary to kick off the holidays and give back at the same time,” stated Calgary Food Bank President and CEO James McAra. “The Calgary Food Bank is so grateful for CP’s continued support to help us build a Canada where no one goes hungry.”
Since the Holiday Train program launched in 1999, it is raised greater than $21 million and picked up 5 million kilos of food for community food banks throughout North America.
“This year, more than ever, the support, awareness and goodwill that the CP Holiday Train brings will make an impact beyond imagination to the food support programs of East Side Neighborhood Services,” stated Mary Anstett, Vice President, Community Engagement for East Side Neighborhood Services in Minneapolis. “With the support that Holiday Train brings in, we can rest assured that so many will have warm nutritious food on their tables in the coldest months.”
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