Holiday shopping passports are now available at 150 participating shops, boutiques, salons, restaurants, cafés, and other businesses and organizations in downtown Peterborough.
For every $10 you spend at a participating location in “The Boro”, you earn a stamp in your passport. When your passport is filled with stamps, you complete the form and drop the completed passport off at a ballot box at one of the participating locations. See a list of all participating locations below.
Each completed passport is a ballot for one of three early bird draws (held on December 1, 8, and 15) for a $500 Boro gift card, with the final grand prize draw for a $1,500 Boro gift card taking place after the holiday season on January 8.
“Every year our Holiday Shopping Passport program brings an excitable shopping buzz into our downtown core,” says Terry Guiel, executive director of the Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Area (DBIA). “In order to combat online and big box shopping trends, we have to support programming that celebrates the physical shopping experience.”
The year’s holiday shopping passport features a new festive design and comes in a smaller, purse-friendly format.
You can get your passport started at no cost with a complimentary stamp when you use the Peterborough Public Library at 345 Aylmer Street North, when you drop by the Peterborough & the Kawarthas Visitor Centre in the VentureNorth building at 270 George Street North, or at the new Boro Holiday Hub (launching soon at 373 George Street North). There’s a limit of one complimentary stamp per person.
According to the DBIA, last year’s program saw shoppers stamp more than $2.5 million worth of holiday shopping passports.
To make it easier for people to shop downtown, the City of Peterborough will be providing free two-hour parking beginning Black Friday (November 26) until the end of December, courtesy of Wolfe Lawyers.
For more information on businesses in downtown Peterborough, visit theboro.ca.
2021 Holiday Passport Locations
- Absolute Hair
- African Dishes
- Amandala’s
- Antoinette Bridal
- Arken Beauty
- Art School of Peterborough
- Avant Garden Shop
- B!ke
- BioPed Footcare
- Black Honey Bakery
- Black Honey Dessert & Coffeehouse
- Blackhorse Pub
- Blue Streak Records
- Boardwalk Game Lounge
- Boater’s World
- Brick House Craft Burger Grill
- Brothers Pizza
- Cahill’s Outerwear
- Candy Couture
- Capra Toro
- Champs
- Charlotte Mews
- Charlotte Paint/Benjamin Moore
- Charlotte’s Web
- Chaska
- Cheslers Shoe Store
- Chumleighs
- Cork and Bean
- Cottage Toys
- Cozy Home Design
- Crepes of Wrath
- Curry Mantra
- Curry Village
- Dan Joyce
- Dirty Burger
- Dodrio
- Dream Cyclery
- Dreams of Beans
- Dueling Grounds
- Earth Food Store
- Electric City Bread Co
- Electric City Works (Chalk Therapy)
- Euphoria Wellness Spa
- Fab Factory
- First Stop Swap Shop
- Flavour
- Fontaine’s Source for Sports
- Food Forest Café
- Fork It
- Fresh Dreams
- Full Tilt Cycle
- Gentry Apparel
- Gerti’s Pub
- Grady’s Feet Essentials
- Greater Peterborough Chamber of Commerce
- Green Street
- GreenUP
- Grey Guardian Games
- Hanoi House
- Hi Ho Silver
- Hobies Sports Ltd.
- Iceman Video Games
- Insight Optical
- Island Cream Caribbean Cuisine
- Jamican Hot Pot
- Jasmine Thai Cuisine
- John Roberts
- Just Like New
- K and C Costumes
- Kettle Drums
- Kingan Home Hardware
- Kit Coffee
- Knock On Wood
- Kollect This Inc
- La Hacienda
- La Mesita
- Larry Electric & Motor Service
- Laurie Jones & Co Hair Designers
- Lavender Moon
- Lift Lock Escape
- LiLi’s Convenience
- Maple Moose
- Marie Cluthé Antiques and Collectibles
- McThirty’s Pub
- Mercado La Hacienda
- Meta 4 Gallery
- metaphorhome
- Minh’s Grocery Store
- Mr. Sub
- my Own Clouds
- Naked Chocolate
- Nateure’s Plate
- Needles in the Hay
- NeedleWorks
- Pammets Flowers
- Papas Billiards
- Pasta Shop
- Peterborough Kawartha Tourism
- Peterborough Photo Services
- Peterborough Public Library
- Pettigrew Spa & Salon
- Pipe Dreams
- Pizza Kollo
- Pizza Parlor
- Plant Bakery
- Providence
- Ptbo Inn and Suites
- Rare Grill House
- Rawscoe’s Sport Collectibles
- Real Thai Cuisine
- Reboot
- Ritual Apothecary
- Runner’s Life
- S.O.S
- Sam’s Place
- Sandy’s Cigar & Variety
- Smiles To You
- Solid Leather
- Sparq
- Speak Easy
- St Veronus
- Starks
- Studio East
- Sugar Me Right
- Sullivan Law
- Sustain
- Taso’s Pizzeria
- T-Elle Boutique
- The Boro Holiday Hub
- The Cell Shop
- The Cheese Shop
- The Edison
- The Food Shop
- The Hawk Express
- The Social
- The Toy Shop
- The Whistle Stop
- Things from Mom’s Basement
- Tiny Greens
- Tonic Hair Salon
- Tribal Voices
- True North Smoke
- Turnbull Café
- Unicorn Hair Salon
- Union Studio
- Village of Thai
- Watson & Lou
- Wild Rock Outfitters
- Wing House
- Y-Drive
- Yo Yo’s Yogurt Café
