THUNDER BAY – The CKPC Holiday Train will be rolling through Northern Ontario in early December.
Artists Tyler Shaw and Shawnee Kish are scheduled to perform.
Kish was a 2022 Juno nominee for contemporary Indigenous Artist of the Year, and received two more nominations in 2023 for her EP, Revolution, including Adult Alternative Album of the Year and Contemporary Indigenous Artist of the Year.
Tyler Shaw is a multiple-time Juno nominee who has performed for Prince Harry and opened for the likes of Shawn Mendes and Alessia Cara, and toured with Selena Gomez.
The Holiday Train will arrive in Marathon on Dec. 2 from 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m., then make its way west to Schreiber and Nipigon before landing in Thunder Bay at 8:45 p.m. at the CN Station on Syndicate Avenue.
The train heads to Dryden, Vermillion Bay, Kenora and Ingolf on Dec. 3, before making its way into Manitoba later that day.
Northwestern Ontario stops include:
Dec.1
- White River (9 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.)
Dec. 2
- Mobert (9:15 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.)
- Heron Bay (11:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.)
- Marathon (12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m.)
- Schreiber (3 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.)
- Nipigon (5:45 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.)
- Thunder Bay (8:45 p.m. to 9:15 p.m.)
Dec. 3
- Ignace (9:15 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.)
- Dryden (11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.)
- Vermillion Bay (1:15 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.)
- Kenora (3:45 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.)
- Ingolf (5 p.m. to 5:35 p.m.)