Bruce Templeton
“Rotary International Santa”
St. John’s, Newfoundland
1945 – Current
International Santa Claus Hall of Fame – December 2014
Bruce Templeton – St. John’s, Newfoundland
For over 35 years, Bruce Templeton has enjoyed assisting Santa and St. Nicholas in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada.
Each year, with a team of helpers from the local business community, a massive goodwill operation takes place. With over 50 visits, from the Santa Claus Parade to Christmas Eve at the Children’s Hospital, Bruce is pivotal in collecting over 20 tons of food.
With the assistance of his helpers, he works to fly 18 children on a real plane to meet Santa at the North Pole. Seventeen of the children are selected by a radio station, and one child is selected from the hospital, as this will likely be their last Christmas.
As volunteer Santa, all revenue and a portion of revenue from the sale of his memoirs (The Man in the Red Suit and The Man with the White Beard) go to Rotary International and have bought polio vaccines for more than 240,000 children in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria.
