Updated November 12, 2022.
Mark your calendars! The CP Holiday Train is coming back to Eastern Ontario and points beyond in 2022.
The gaily decorated Canadian CP Holiday Train will be rolling into the Montreal area on Sunday, November 27, with stops in Montreal West (6:45pm to 7:30pm) and Beaconsfield (8:20pm to 9pm).
On Monday, November 28, the train will be in Finch (2:30pm to 3:15pm), Merrickville (4:45pm to 5:30pm), Smiths Falls (6:20pm to 7pm) and Perth (7:40pm to 8:30pm).
And on Tuesday, November 29, the Canadian CP Holiday Train will be in Belleville (9:15am to 10am), Trenton (10:45am to 11:15am), Brighton (11:30am to 12:15pm), Bowmanville (1:45pm to 2:30pm) and Oshawa (3pm to 3:45pm) en route to Toronto (8:15pm to 9pm).
Alberta country singer-songwriter Tenille Townes and Oji-Cree singer-songwriter Aysanabee will be on board to entertain crowds at each of the stops listed above. Here’s the entire schedule for the Canadian CP Holiday Train.
Meanwhile, the equally festive U.S. CP Holiday Train will be in Kahnawake (4:45pm to 5:30pm) on the south shore of Montreal on Saturday, November 26, and then make several more stops in Quebec—in St. Constant (5:50pm to 6:30pm), Delson (6:45pm to 7:20pm), St. Mathieu (7:40pm to 8:15pm) and Lacolle (8:50pm to 9:30pm)—before heading south across the U.S. border.
Then the U.S. CP Holiday Train will stop in several communities in upstate New York. On Sunday, November 27, it will pull into Mechanicville (5:50pm to 6:30pm) and Saratoga Springs (7:20pm to 8pm). On Monday, November 28, the train will be in Fort Edward (1:05pm to 1:45pm), Port Henry (4:30pm to 5:15pm), Plattsburgh (7pm to 7:45pm) and Rouses Point (8:45pm to 9:30pm). It crosses back into Canada on Tuesday, November 29, for stops in Milton (4:45pm to 5:30pm) and Hamilton (7:45pm to 8:40pm). Calgary-based country singer Lindsay Ell and American gospel-country trio Texas Hill will be entertaining audiences at the stops listed above. Here’s the entire U.S. CP Holiday Train schedule.
The CP holiday trains will continue across Canada and the U.S. until December 18. The Canadian train will finish its trip in Port Coquitlam, B.C., while the U.S. train will conclude its run in Weyburn, Saskatchewan.
It’s all free, but guests are encouraged to bring monetary or food donations for their local food bank. (Cash helps the food banks stretch their budgets further.)
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12 comments
What about Ottawa???
It’s not coming to Ottawa this year. 🙁 But Finch, Winchester, Merrickville and Perth are all within an hour’s drive!
Would have been nice to see the train in Ottawa specially for those like myself who do not have a car and it would have been a great way to end Canada’s 150th.
I am hoping to add more posts and information to my Ottawa Road Trips website in 2018 on ways to do local road trips without a car. (I didn’t have a car for seven years, so I know how tricky it can be.)
Its not coming to edmontom this
year but the wait till next year will be worth it
Where is the best place to park and be in Perth? This is the first time for us this year, I don’t want to miss it.
Thanks
Here’s the location, according to the CP Holiday Train website: “Rail yard near the junction of Herriott Street & Sherbrooke Street E.”
Have fun! It looks like it will be a lovely clear night for it.
Again this year (2019), the train isn’t coming to Ottawa !!! Might be going to Perth and Merrickville which is only 1 hour drive BUT it’s on a week day. People are working .. Leaving 1 hour earlier from work is OK but when you have to drive home, get the kids, drive to site, have supper, then you would have to take the whole afternoon off !!!
Yes, it’s really too bad it isn’t coming through Ottawa this year! I wish it did. 😢
[…] Every year, two CP holiday trains roll across North America—one entirely in Canada, and another that travels back and forth across the U.S.–Canada border. The U.S.–Canada train will leave Kahnawake on the south shore of Montreal on Monday, November 25, before making its way through a series of stops in Quebec and crossing into upstate New York. Meanwhile, the Canadian train will leave Montreal on Tuesday, November 26, and will be stopping in Finch, Merrickville, Smiths Falls and Perth on Wednesday, November 27. For the full schedule of stops in Quebec, upstate New York and Eastern Ontario, see my CP Holiday Train post. […]
[…] This seems awfully early, but, as the train will be in neighbouring cities in a couple of weeks I thought best post now to give everyone a heads up and plan ahead. “On Monday, November 28, the train will be in Finch (2:30pm to 3:15pm), Merrickville (4:45pm to 5:30pm), Smiths Falls (6:20pm to 7pm) and Perth (7:40pm to 8:30pm).” Details here. […]
This sounds like so much fun.