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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.
Eglinton Avenue West
Jamaicans and other members of the growing black community settled in this area during the sixties and seventies and developed a small business class. Many music stores; grocery stores; bars; beauty salons; barbershops; restaurants and stores…
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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. ”
Albert Campbell Square
a large public square outside of Scarborough Civic Centre.
”Zanzibar”
”Part of the Yonge Street strip of bars/ taverns and clubs where musicians played every night.”
”YWCA McPhail House”
"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…
”Varsity Stadium”
”The athletic stadium for the University of Toronto. Varsity was also the site for major concerts and music festivals.”
”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.”