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Third World Bookstore
"'The bookstore... which the militant radical and railway porter Leonard Johnston had opened with his wife Gwendolyn less than a year earlier...…
”The Palace Pier”
”Calypso Carnival April 7 Will Rock Palace Pier!”
”the Caribbean Club”
”On a visit in November 1961 Jeff Henry a Trinidad-born university student and member of the Little Carib Dancers
”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 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 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…'”
”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.'”
”Club Tropics”
”One of the clubs opened during the calypso craze but also a safe space for West Indian people.”
”Club One Two”
”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.”