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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... specialized in books on the history and culture of Africa and its diaspora/ black literature and volumes…
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... specialized in books on the history and culture of Africa and its diaspora/ black literature and volumes…
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... specialized in books on the history and culture of Africa and its diaspora/ black literature and volumes…
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”One of the first and the most influential newspapers in the Black Toronto community. Many prominient Caribbean-Canadian writers got their start here. ”
”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…
”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 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…'”