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Caribana Parade
During the eighties, the parade route followed along Bloor Street and Yonge Street and ended at Nathan Phillips Square.
”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 Caribbean Club”
”On a visit in November 1961 Jeff Henry a Trinidad-born university student and member of the Little Carib Dancers
”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”
”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”
”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.'”
”Third World Bookstore”
"Third World Books thrived for more than 30 years at numerous addresses but most notably in the heart of Seaton Village—a strip of businesses along Bathurst Street catering to the city’s black and Caribbean communities—until it closed in early 2000…
”A Different Booklist”
"Beyond the events ' A Different Booklist' became a site for a less tangible kind of community support such as referrals for seniors who couldn't afford taxis to take them to the doctor; young people looking for intellectual resources to support…
”Ontario Black History Society”
”Dr. Daniel Hill Donna Hill Wilson Brooks Joan Kazmarski Lorraine Hubbard and others co-founded the Ontario Black History Society in 1978. It became the first major public organization in Canada focused on the history of Blacks in the…
”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.”