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”Hook and Ladder Club”
”The Sandpebbles of Barbados-- 3 Shows Nitely.”
”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.'”
”R.P.M.”
”Buckshot Lefonque… A Branford Marsalis project.”
”Spectrum”
”Club Nouveau - Full Band Live in Concert. Spectrum was a popular nightclub in the entertainment district during the eighties. A venue for black performers too.”
”the Bermuda Tavern”
”One of the clubs opened during the calypso craze but also a safe space for West Indian people.”
”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…'”
”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”
”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 Caribbean Club”
”On a visit in November 1961 Jeff Henry a Trinidad-born university student and member of the Little Carib Dancers