It's Saturday, and it's the day for the Caribbean Festival parade. This is in celebration of Emancipation Day, marking when the slaves were freed in the British Empire. The article I (Steve) read said that it started at 8:30, but I think that was in error, because I got there at 9 and still had to wait a couple hours. But it was in a nice lakeside park, so no real pain there.
The main body of the parade consisted of flatbed trucks carrying extremely loud "mas" (as in masquerade) bands accompanied by throngs of people dressed with elaborate decoration, especially headdresses. Each group wears the same colors:
Then there are the truly gigantic outfits, big enough to be small floats, on wheels but being pulled and steered by one person in a harness:
The mas bands were followed by some steel drum bands, also on flatbeds:
Sunday, it's off on the train to London (Ontario, not England!)
Beautiful! Go Canada :)
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