Looking to get into the holiday spirit? Here are a couple of suggestions to help you get your jingle on across the country.

Located in the city’s historic Distillery District, this year’s Toronto Christmas Market runs until Sunday, December 20. The entire area is decked out for the holidays complete with lighting and décor displays, carolers and traditional wooden booths selling locally handcrafted goods, decorations and Christmas themed foods.

Many of the booths feature items from Eastern European countries, Holland and Germany, where the tradition of Christmas markets began in the early 1400’s.

An added bonus is the expanded weekend liquor license, which allows visitors to enjoy an authentic holiday beverage including mulled wine, cider or hot chocolate (with a kick!) by an outdoor fire. There is a $5 charge to enter the market on the weekends.

Vancouver’s Christmas Market is located in the heart of the city on the outdoor plaza at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. It runs from now right up until Christmas Eve at 6 p.m.

Many of the 55 vendors have come from Germany. However, the beauty of the market is that it is much more than just a craft fair. Picture strolling through romantic rows of little wooden huts decorated in pine branches and illuminated with strings of little white lights while listening to holiday music in the background.

For the Vancouver market, there is an admission charge of $8 for adults on the weekend (with 50% discounts during the week) and $4 for youth all the time and children six and under are free.

A more long standing tradition in the city is the Carol Ships Parade of Lights. Every night during December, some 80 boats strung with some 100,000 lights parade around False Creek, Deep Cove and Port Moody. Dinner cruises are available on some of the ships or you can watch from shore.

For a more traditional Christmas, head to Morrisburg, Ontario, located about an hour-and-a-half from Kingston.

Upwards of one million white lights adorn the buildings of the historic Upper Canada Village for Alight at Night, running through to January 2.

The surrounding grounds are looped with coloured lights, and within this illuminated nineteenth century town, where time stopped around 1867, there are sleigh rides, Victorian Christmas meals, toy train rides, and places to purchase one-of-a-kind artisanal gifts.

New this year is the addition of an 8,000 sq. m. Mistletoe Maze constructed from bales of Reindeer Hay. If you want to stay over you can actually spend the night in the Village at Montgomery House. www.AlightatNight.ca

As part of the Merry Montreal celebrations on until January 1, Montrealers can visit the Christmas Market at Place Jacques Cartier on weekends from now until Christmas. The festivities include a series of outdoor movies, festive restaurant deals and a huge New Year’s Eve party.