Jessica Mitchell gathers donations for the Yellowknife Street Outreach program. The program's new van was an entry in the parade. Sarah Pruys/Cabin Radio
In pictures: Grinch takes over Yellowknife’s Santa Claus parade
The big guy was in there if you squinted hard enough, but there was no mistaking it: Yellowknife’s Santa Claus parade this year had gone green.
The 2024 edition had a Grinch theme that virtually every float vibrantly addressed in what felt like easily the most popular parade, by number of entries, for some years.
Happily, our photographer Sarah Pruys had no such trouble finding some standout images of this year’s parade, which took place in a relatively comfortable -15C with barely any wind.
Check out Sarah’s images of the 2024 parade and see if you can find yourself, family or friends among the floats and the crowd.
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All images on this page: Sarah Pruys/Cabin Radio.
Neon green lights were a feature of this year’s Grinchy parade.
Young paradegoers surveyed by Cabin Radio were split roughly 50-50 between Santa and the Grinch as their favourite festive figure.
The population of Whoville, the community that forms a backdrop to many of the Grinch’s antics, made appearances on multiple floats.
It was a chilly but not unbearably cold evening for a parade, by NWT standards.
Even so, young ones were wrapped up toasty warm.
There were a good many Grinch impersonators on display (the real one, of course, was in Cabin Radio’s studio one.)
Yellowknife’s 50 Avenue mid-parade.
All manner of contraptions made an appearance.
Locals and tourists mingled in the crowd, including some visitors to the city who could be seen live-streaming the parade to friends back home.
Parade entries included people with bikes and an entry dedicated to dogs…
… as well as some slightly heavier machinery.
Good old St Nick was not entirely bereft of support in the Grinch-themed event. Traditional holiday red and white was still to be found.
Yellowknife’s Shop Hop, which is set for Thursday this coming week, had an entry in the parade.
Never have pylons looked so festive.
The rules state you can’t throw candy from a parade float toward the crowd…
… but various entries concluded that a healthy toss from a slightly closer distance was well within regulations, and kids scrambled for the resulting treats.
At one point, an entire garbage can made an appearance in the parade.
Amid the ongoing postal strike, enterprising NWT airline Buffalo Airways has said it will step in to deliver letters to Santa.
In one of the most eye-catching Grinch appearances of the night, the green fella found himself in the bucket of some North Shore Waste heavy equipment.
Sir John Franklin High School students alongside the YK1 school district’s entry.
Cabin Radio’s entry may have evaded its broadcasters live on the air, but here’s photo evidence of it passing the station’s own downtown studios in the background.
The Grinch may have been the theme, but there’s no doubting who the big draw is. As ever, Santa had the final float in the parade.
Happy holidays, everyone. Stay tuned in December for more details of Cabin Radio’s festive broadcasting for the 2024 holiday season.
