Here are some pictures I've taken at Caribana Festivals over the years: Mainly of the ladies, and the costumes.
Caribana was introduced to Toronto by people of Trinidadian decent coming into Toronto in a mass migration that began in the 1960's and continued throughout the 1970's from Trinidad when the economy there was not good. A lot of these Trinidadian people came to Ontario cities like Hamilton and Toronto and became the backbone of the caribbean community in Toronto. Followed by peoples leaving other islands like Barbados, St. Lucia, Antigua, etc, etc. This mass migration from the caribbean has now stopped, because of the extreme income growth of the financial sector in those islands, in which many now make far more income advantageous to stay there, than they could if they moved to Canada. So in essence there is no need to leave the caribbean looking for wealth, when the worlds uber rich, are aching to stash their billions on your idealic and tropical islands.
Anyways back to the party...
Moving down Lakeshore a bit
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