Welcome to the Windsor Essex Holiday Gift Guide – your way to buy local this holiday season. You can use it as a wish list for yourself, or as a shopping list for that special someone in your life! We’re sure we have enough on this list to cover everyone you need to buy for – naughty or nice! We even have great ideas for party hosting and holiday events to celebrate the season in YQG!
Download our 7th Annual Holiday Gift Guide to see our featured gifts for this season!
This holiday season we want you to #ShopYQG – and keep your dollars local for all the gifts you need to buy!
Our 7th Annual Holiday Gift Guide features ideas that are locally crafted and curated items that would make a perfect gift for someone that you care about this holiday season. We’ve designed this resource with partnership from the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Centre, a division of Invest WindsorEssex, windsoriteDOTca, www.mix967.ca and our W.E. Made It Program, to make it easier for you to find local gift inspirations for everyone on your list! Get inspired – when you buy local, your money goes back to our community. There are so many unique items available locally, and your purchases help keep more money in our region this holiday season.
45 DAYS OF GIVEAWAYS
Enter today for your chance to WIN gift featured in our 7th Annual Holiday Gift Guide! Just click here for details! You can win in 3 easy steps.
- Check out the feature icon of the day and our feature gift partner!
- Search the guide for days feature icon!
- Click here and tell us what page you found the icon on for the chance to win!
Our contest runs through Sunday December 21st at 11:59pm. You can enter once per day per valid email address. It’s your chance to win over $3,500 in gifts. Whether you keep them for yourself or gift them to someone else is your choice!
Cookie Bar
Today's Feature Partner
Today's featured partner is Cookie Bar. For your chance to win a $50 gift card search the guide for today's featured icon and then enter to win!
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Week of November 7th
- Friday November 7th – Amy C. of Windsor who won a Crewneck and Hat Combo from Southwest Shores
- Saturday November 8th – Debbi S. of Belle River who won a $50 Gift Card from RARE Butcher Shop
- Sunday November 9th – Leah F. of Harrow who won a Handmade Pierced Tin Lantern from Park House Museum & Tinsmith
Week of November 10th
- Monday November 10th – Georgiana V. of Windsor who won a $100 Gift Card from Canadian Captures Photography
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EXPLORE OUR DISTRICTS
Take the opportunity this holiday season to explore the unique districts in each town at shopyqg.ca – filled with boutique shops, artisans, and major retail partners employing local residents. Remember for every $100 you spend at locally owned businesses, $68 will stay in our community. Resist the urge of the major online distributors and head right into the store and say hi to one of your neighbours #ShopYQG
Click shopyqg.ca for our regional shopping guide.
6 LOCALLY-SOURCED RETAIL SHOPS
Check out the shops below for great options to support local – filled to the brim with locally sourced gift ideas all in one stop!
FEATURED PARTNERS
Our guide is made up of stars and we are proud to feature the local businesses that light up our community. Follow the featured gift stars to find the businesses below in our guide or shop online with the links below.
To view the rest of our 7th Annual Holiday Gift Guide, just click here to go back to the main page. To read the full guide in it’s entirety please click here for the digital edition of our 7th Annual Holiday Gift Guide.
The Holiday Gift Guide is in partnership with the Windsor-Essex Small Business Centre and our W.E. Made It program created by Tourism Windsor Essex Pelee Island, and partners participating in their programs. * Pictures are representative of the gifts highlighted and may be different than what is available in store. Prices and availability may vary.
