Post on : November 30, 2025
Almost 55,000 spectators had their Christmas wishes granted as they were treated to a
fantastic array of floats, performing groups and lovable characters at the 2025 Downtown
St. John’s Christmas Parade. “It was a perfect day for the Parade under blue bird skies
with huge crowds and amazing entries.”, said Gaylynne Gulliver of Downtown St. John’s.
Employees of Newfoundland Power, a corporate sponsor of the event, were out in full
force gathering food for Santa’s annual food drive aid of the Community Food Sharing
Association as well as thousands in cash donations. Newfoundland Power are also
matching funds collected at the Parade up to $25,000.00. Santa has a sleigh full of letters
to answer collected by Canada Post along the Parade route.
The winners of various categories for the 2025 Downtown St. John’s Parade were:
Charlie Cook Community Spirit Award:
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Best Live Music Performance
First Place: Salvation Army Band
Second Place: Music Collection Drumline
Third Place: Ukrainian National Federation of Canada
Best Cheerleading Group
First Place: Cheer Sport Sharks.
Second Place: Holy Heart Cheerleaders
Third Place: Holy Spirit High Falons
Best Performing Group:
First Place: Revolutions
Second Place: Sorensen School of Dance
Third Place: Kickn’ It Country with Colleen
Best Non-Corporate Float:
First Place: City of St. John’s
Second Place: HMSC Cabot
Third Place: Iceberg Alley Riders
Best Corporate Float:
First Place: SEA Contracting Ltd.
Second Place: Vale -Long Harbour Operations
Third Place: Heave Away Waste Management
Downtown St. John’s would like to thank Newfoundland Power, NTV and OZ FM, Allstar
Rebar, Capital Auto Group, the City of St. John’s, St. John’s Regional Fire Department,
RNC, Rovers Ground Search and Rescue, Eastern Health, St. John Ambulance, Bell,
East Can Transport, High-Tech Communications and Colliers International as well as the
thousands of Parade participants, spectators, volunteers and community agencies who
made the event such a success.