CP Holiday Train

History
Now in its eleventh year, the Canadian Pacific Railway's lighted Holiday Train has been bringing holiday cheer and spreading the message of feeding our area's hungry.  
 

Since 1999, the Holiday Train program has raised over $3 million CDN and close to 1.6 million pounds of food for North American food banks. 
 

Across Canada, over 70 towns, villages and cities in six provinces will experience the Holiday Train spirit - starting in Beaconsfield, Quebec and ending in Port Moody, British Columbia on December 18th.        
 

In 1999, CPR in Canada began running a freight train decorated with thousands of Christmas lights to raise awareness of the issue of hunger prevalent in all communities. CPR launched a second Holiday Train in the United States in 2001.
 

Event goers at each Holiday Train location are asked to make cash donations or contribute non-perishable food items to food pantries or food banks on site. All food and cash donations stay in each community for distribution by those organizations. No food is actually loaded onto the Holiday Train.
 

Each train has a "stage car." These are renovated boxcars containing stage lights and sound equipment.  At each of the approximately 75 stops in Canada and the U.S. Midwest and Northeast, entertainers perform 20- to 30-minute outdoor concerts. In some locations, CPR crowds of more than 10,000 people have turned out to watch the shows and contribute to local hunger relief efforts.
 

CP Holiday Train - Elgin Street Train Station at 9:30pm on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009.  Entertainers for the Concert Under the Stars are

the Canadian Group the Odds 

Non-perishabel food or donations by cash, cheque, Visa or Mastercard will be accepted by Sudbury Food Bank Volunteers. Thank-you for your support!

PLEASE JOIN US FOR THIS GREAT AND MAGICAL FAMILY EVENT!