The Most Magical Christmas Town-Almonte, Ontario, Almonte, Ontario

Browsing through Pinterest, I randomly came across an article about all the magical Christmas towns in Ontario, Canada (a place that’s not too far from home!). I also discovered that they film A LOT of Christmas and holiday movies in Canada. I mean A LOT.

Apparently Canada has less taxes and restrictions and rules and all that about filming movies (Yay Canada!), so most (not all, but most!) of those cheesy Hallmark, Netflix, etc. Christmas movies that I love are filmed in Canada.

When I found out that Almonte, Ontario was (unofficially) the Christmas movie filming capital of the world, AND it was under a 7 hour drive away… well, naturally I planned a trip to visit this Christmas town in Canada!

- Psst: Like holiday movies? I love using my Christmas movie cookbook to make food/drinks for a holiday movie marathon!

Almonte, Ontario is a small town of about 6,000 people, just a 40 minute drive west of Ottawa. It is thought to be named after the Mexican general Juan N. Almonte in 1855, and is pronounced “Al-Mont.” ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).