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"On February 26 1964 shoppers dressed in their Sunday best walked through Yorkdale Shopping Centre for the first time. With over 1.2 million square feet of retail restaurants and services—although not all of them were yet leased on opening…

”Calypso Carnival April 7 Will Rock Palace Pier!”

"Domestic workers from the West Indies established a Caribbean club in Toronto as early as 1958 holding weekly gatherings at the YWCA’s McPhail House to dance to calypso records—providing a burst of camaraderie and familiar culture in unfamiliar…

”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.”

”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.”

”One of the clubs opened during the calypso craze but also a safe space for West Indian people.”

"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…

"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…

”On a visit in November 1961 Jeff Henry a Trinidad-born university student and member of the Little Carib Dancers

”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.'”