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 8th 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 8th 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.
42 DAYS OF GIVEAWAYS
Join us for 42 Days of giveaways – and your chance to win gifts featured in the guide. It’s just three easy steps to win gifts between November 9th & December 20th, 2026.
Bees and Bloom Wellness
Today's Feature Partner
Today's featured partner is Bees and Bloom Wellness. For your chance at a Bee Bed Session for Two, search the guide for today's featured icon and then enter to win!
View ContestYou can win in just three easy steps!
- Check out our feature partner and icon of the day (above)
- Explore our guide and find the icon hidden on one of the pages.
- Click here and tell us what page the icon of the day (not the featured partner) is on!
- Monday November 9th – Tracy R. of Harrow who won a 2 Hour Sunset Cruise for Two from Windsor Premier Cruises
- Tuesday November 10th – Dustin D. of Lakeshore who won a Holiday Wine Gift Box from Pelee Island Winery
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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.
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.
