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by MikePhotoGuy | August 5, 2009 at 07:23 pm
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The 2009 Caribana Parade in Toronto, Ontario, Canada took place on August 1, 2009. The festivities kicked off at 10am at Exhibition Place and slowly, oh so very, very slowly made its way down the Lakeshore finally ending up near Sunnyside Beach well past 6pm. Yes, you read that right the parade started around 10am and the last float did not finish the parade until 6pm.
Without a doubt this was the longest parade, in terms of time, that I have ever witnessed with literally 45 minutes in some cases between floats. Despite that the parade was very well attended with an estimated 1.5 million people crowding around the 4 kilometer parade route.
Several thousand of those watched paid $18 each to watch the festivities at Exhibition place and another 14,000 people paid $14 each to attend the Caribana Lime festival which was moved from Toronto Island to Ontario Place this year due to the City Labour Disruption.
Events this year were very peaceful without any serious incidents of violence which can be directly connected to Caribana.
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at 19:25 on August 5th, 2009
Was this just this past weekend?
at 19:36 on August 5th, 2009
Yes, this coverage was from this past weekend, August 1, 2009. Edited the story to reflect this.
at 19:45 on August 5th, 2009
45 mins between some floats!? I would have thought it was over and left!
at 20:02 on August 5th, 2009
6 pm at Sunnyside? Sounds about right .... ; >)
Nice shots, thanks for sharing.
at 01:23 on August 6th, 2009
Good there are no incindents of violence
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