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Trivia Eh? Santa Claus Parade

November 25, 2011 By Submit to Canadiana Connection

Santa Claus Parade

  • The Toronto Santa Claus Parade started two decades before the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and in fact inspired the famous annual big show in New York.
  • The Toronto Santa Claus Parade has been running steadily, without missing a year, since 1905.
  • Statistics for the 2011 edition of the Parade include:
    • A parade route that’s almost 4 miles long
    • A participant list that includes over 1,700 people
    • An estimated live audience, on the parade route, of over half a million people
    • A worldwide television audience, with tens of millions watching in North America alone
    • 24 floats and 24 bands
    • One Santa Claus and for the first time in the history of the parade, Santa will bejoined by Mrs. Claus!
  • CBS television picked up a few minutes coverage of the Parade in the early 1950’s, but due to American audience demands, later began to carry it in its entirety.
  • The Parade was started by the folks at Eaton’s, a now bankrupt department store.
  • Santa has arrived in Toronto for the parade by almost every conceivable means of transportation, from a traditional sleigh pulled by real reindeer, to an airplane.
  • Santa originally arrived at Toronto’s Union Station in 1905 by train.

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