{"id":285313,"date":"2026-11-09T17:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T17:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/285313\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T17:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T17:14:10","slug":"sea-bears-to-lead-117th-winnipeg-santa-claus-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/285313\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Bears to Lead 117th Winnipeg Santa Claus Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"et_pb_title_meta_container\">November 9, 2026 10:30 AM CDT | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisd.ca\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-223754\" class=\"size-full wp-image-223754\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/winnipeg-santa-claus-parade.jpg\" alt=\"Winnipeg Santa Claus Parade\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-223754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 117th Santa Claus Parade begins at 5 p.m. on Saturday, November 14. (HANDOUT)<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 CEBL champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisd.ca\/tag\/Winnipeg-Sea-Bears\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winnipeg Sea Bears<\/a> will lead this year\u2019s Santa Claus Parade when it takes to the streets of downtown Winnipeg on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 117th edition of the parade will have the Sea Bears serving as grand marshal when festivities get underway beginning at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The free event will feature floats, walking groups and holiday cheer. The route is unchanged: it starts at Portage Avenue and Main Street, heads west on Portage, turns south onto Memorial Boulevard and ends at York Avenue. Santa\u2019s block parties begin at 4 p.m. along the route.<\/p>\n<p>The Sea Bears won the CEBL Championship at home this summer in front of a league-record 12,519 fans at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisd.ca\/tag\/Canada-Life-Centre\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canada Life Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeading the Santa Claus Parade as grand marshal is a great honour and gives us the chance to celebrate together, and to say thank you to our fans who supported us all season long,\u201d said Sea Bears owner David Asper.<\/p>\n<p>The independent, volunteer-run parade is also holding its second annual H0\/H0 50\/50 fundraiser. Tickets are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbhydrosantaparade.com\/5050raffle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">mbhydrosantaparade.com\/5050raffle<\/a> and on-site at the parade, with the draw on Tuesday, November 17. Last year\u2019s winner took home almost $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers aged 18 and older are still needed as parade route safety walkers and can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbhydrosantaparade.com\/Volunteer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">sign up online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-223755 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/winnipeg-santa-claus-parade-route.jpg\" alt=\"Winnipeg Santa Claus Parade Route\" width=\"801\" height=\"519\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"November 9, 2026 10:30 AM CDT | News The 117th Santa Claus Parade begins at 5 p.m. on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1288,56511,78557,84,52403],"class_list":["post-285313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-basketball","tag-christmas","tag-santa-claus-parade","tag-winnipeg","tag-winnipeg-sea-bears"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}