Banff 
The Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) Holiday Train is back for its 27th year!
Credit: CPKC Holiday Train
Two trains, each about 1,000 feet long with rail cars covered in hundreds of thousands of LED lights and a modified boxcar converted into a travelling performance stage, made their way across the Canadian Pacific Kansas City network in the U.S. and Canada beginning in November to raise money, food and awareness for local food banks.
In Alberta, the Canadian train will visit communities from Provost and Hardisty to Fort MacLeod, Pincher Creek, and Coleman via Calgary before travelling west to end its journey in Port Coquitlam.
The U.S. Train’s last leg takes it through Medicine Hat, Tilley, and Brooks, with Gleichen marking the end of its festive route.
Live concert highlights the CPKC Holiday Train experience, and performing free concerts supporting food banks are Barenaked Ladies, Jade Eagleson, Teigen Gayse, Lanco, and Tiera Kennedy.
Each event is free, and CPKC encourages attendees to open their cupboards and wallets to help address hunger in their communities. Local food banks will be accepting donations at each stop to ensure those less fortunate have enough healthy food this holiday season.
The CPKC Holiday Train program launched in 1999 and has since raised more than $26 million and over 5.4 million pounds of food for community food banks across North America.
2025 Alberta Schedule – CPKC Holiday Train
CPKC Holiday Train
Provost | Jade Eagleson and Teigen Gayse
- Sunday, Dec 07 | 6:00–6:30 p.m @ 50th Avenue & 46th Street, Provost
Hardisty | Jade Eagleson and Teigen Gayse
- Sunday, Dec 07 | 9:15–9:45 p.m. @ Highway 881 railway crossing, Hardisty
Camrose | Jade Eagleson and Teigen Gayse
- Monday, Dec 08 | 1:00–1:30 p.m. @ 52 Avenue & 50 Street, Camrose, Alberta
Wetaskiwin, | Jade Eagleson and Teigen Gayse
- Monday, Dec 08 | 3:30–4:00 p.m. @ 4009 50 Street, Wetaskiwin, Alberta
Ponoka | Jade Eagleson and Teigen Gayse
- Monday, Dec 08 | 5:15–5:45 p.m. @ 50 Street & 47 Avenue, Ponoka, Alberta
Lacombe | Jade Eagleson and Teigen Gayse
- Monday, Dec 08 | 7:00–7:30 p.m. @ Len Thompson Fish Pond, Lacombe, Alberta
Blackfalds | Jade Eagleson and Teigen Gayse
- Monday, Dec 08 | 8:15–8:45 p.m. @ CPKC tracks at Gregg Street between Broadway Ave & East Ave, Blackfalds, Alberta
Innisfail | Jade Eagleson and Teigen Gayse
- Tuesday, Dec 09 | 12:55–1:25 p.m. @ 50 Street railway crossing, Innisfail
Olds | Jade Eagleson and Teigen Gayse
- Tuesday, Dec 09 | 2:30–3:00 p.m. @ 50 Street railway crossing, Olds
Didsbury | Jade Eagleson and Teigen Gayse
- Tuesday, Dec 09 | 3:45–4:15 p.m. @ 20 Street & 18 Avenue, Didsbury
Airdrie | Jade Eagleson and Teigen Gayse
- Tuesday, Dec 09 | 5:30–6:00 p.m. @ Nose Creek Park – Main Stree
Calgary | Barenaked Ladies
- Friday, Dec 12 | 7:00–7:30 p.m. @ Anderson C-Train Station, Calgary
Okotoks | Barenaked Ladies
- Saturday, Dec 13 | 12:15–12:45 p.m. @ Daggett Street between Veterans Way and Northridge Drive, Okotoks
Blackie | Barenaked Ladies
- Saturday, Dec 13 | 1:45–2:15 p.m. @ 1201 Railway Avenue, Blackie
Vulcan | Barenaked Ladies
- Saturday, Dec 13 | 3:30–4:00 p.m. @ 1st Avenue & 2nd Street, Vulcan
Lethbridge | Barenaked Ladies
- Saturday, Dec 13 | 7:15–7:45 p.m. @ 2nd Avenue North & 12th Street, adjacent the London Drugs, Lethbridge
Fort MacLeod | Barenaked Ladies
- Sunday, Dec 14 | 9:15–9:45 a.m. @ 5th Avenue railway crossing, Fort MacLeod
Pincher Creek | Barenaked Ladies
- Sunday, Dec 14 | 10:45–11:15 a.m. @ 3rd Ave railway crossing at Highway 3, Pincher Creek
Coleman | Barenaked Ladies
- Sunday, Dec 14 | 12:45–1:15 p.m. @ 17 Avenue & 69 Street, Coleman
Medicine Hat | Lanco and Tiera Kennedy
- Sunday, Dec 21 | 3:15–3:45 p.m. @ Queen & North Railway St. East of CPKC Station, Medicine Hat
Tilley | Lanco and Tiera Kennedy
- Sunday, Dec 21 | 5:30–6:00 p.m. @ Southeast Side of Crossing HWY 876, Tilley
Brooks | Lanco and Tiera Kennedy
- Sunday, Dec 21 | 6:40–7:10 p.m. @ 1st Ave. Rear of Civic Bldg, Brooks
Gleichen | Lanco and Tiera Kennedy
- Sunday, Dec 21 | 8:45–9:15 p.m. @ 3rd Ave & Crowfoot Street, Gleichen
Why is Lethbridge not a stop??
On the schedule you have misspelled Aysanabee, you have spelled it Aysanbee
Thank you!
I hope that in 2023, the holiday train, will go from Calgary and stay on southwest tracks threw, Okotoks to Vulcan and also to Champion and now where I live in.
In 2003 I helped Tom Price, with parking at Banff train station and in 2004, I was your Santa and I was wearing my own suit and I was pick up at the Bannf Mac Donalds, gave out over 400 candy cans and got a ride back to wear Iived by cp police.
In 2008 from Cochrane to Banff and stop in Canmore, I think we ran out of fuel for the stage and I had rubber gloves in my bag and gave them to the band