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Kennedy Station
The eastern terminus of the Toronto Transit Commission's (TTC) Bloor-Danforth subway line and a popular hangout and meeting place for many Scarborough…
”Universal Negro Improvement Association - Toronto Chapter”
”A charity organization focused on the black and West Indian community acted as a social gathering space with weekly dances and jam sessions with musicians from the 1920s to the 1940s and offered opportunities to socialize.”
”Little Trinidad”
”As the number of students from the Caribbean attending Toronto colleges increased they established informal clubs; hosted on- and off-campus parties; staged talent contests; and formed bands as a means of seeking camaraderie.'”
”the Calypso Club”
”Toronto’s first calypso club opened over the week-end with more than 150 devotees of Caribbean music squeezed into a tiny room…'”
”the Caribbean Club”
”The Caribbean-themed clubs like other after-hours clubs received regular visits from members of the Metro Toronto Police’s morality division trying to exert a measure of control.'”
”the Port of Spain”
”Located one block west of Bay Street just south of College... the Port of Spain featured The Original Tropitones steelband—”Toronto’s most exciting group” one ad proclaimed—as the house band.'”
”the Caribbean Club”
”On a visit in November 1961 Jeff Henry a Trinidad-born university student and member of the Little Carib Dancers
”the Calypso Club”
"The lush new digs had more than double the seating capacity air conditioning and adjacent indoor parking for customers; a bamboo hut bandstand and a 12-speaker sound system. It included a proper restaurant kitchen allowing an expanded menu of West…
”the West Indies Federation Club”
"The club’s founders—Harry Gairey; Kermit Lynn; Jim Moxley and Clarence Lucey—provided help to West Indian immigrants of all backgrounds helping clear the hurdles of the immigration process; recommending employment agencies or boarding houses; or…
”Club Tropics”
”One of the clubs opened during the calypso craze but also a safe space for West Indian people.”
”Tiger's Coconut Grove”
”Harry Belafonte’s explosive popularity in the late 1950s touched off a new craze for calypso-themed music; Hollywood films; West-Indian-inspired ruffled shirts and 'Calypso Cut' hairdos targeted at a mainstream white audience.”