Toronto Santa Claus Parade
The Toronto Santa Claus Parade, also branded as The Original Santa Claus Parade, is a Santa Claus parade held annually in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The 2023 event was held on November 26.
Santa at the 2010 Toronto Santa Claus Parade
Santa readying his ladder to climb up onto the Eaton's store during the 1918 Santa Claus Parade.
A float in the 1956 parade.
Celebrity Clowns at the 2012 parade.
The T. Eaton Company Limited, later known as Eaton's and then Eaton, was a Canadian department store chain that was once the largest in the country. It was founded in 1869 in Toronto by Timothy Eaton, an immigrant from what is now Northern Ireland. Eaton's grew to become a retail and social institution in Canada, with stores across the country, buying-offices around the globe, and a mail-order catalog that was found in the homes of most Canadians. A changing economic and retail environment in the late twentieth century, along with mismanagement, culminated in the chain's bankruptcy in 1999.
The cover of the first Eaton's catalogue, published in 1884.
The Eaton's store, the Eaton's Annex, mail order facilities and factories in Toronto, at Yonge and Queen Streets, in 1920.
Eaton's Spring and Summer Catalogue 1942
Eaton's Santa Claus Parade, 1918, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Having arrived at the Eaton's store, Santa is readying his ladder to climb up onto the building.