Kids to kick off Toronto Carnival next week
Posted July 6, 2011 8:27 am.
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A group of children turned up at a mall in the northwest end Tuesday to show off their costumes for the upcoming Junior Carnival Parade.
Organizers expect about 2,000 kids and more than 30,000 spectators at the event, which kicks off the newly-named Toronto Caribbean Carnival.
To accommodate the larger crowd, they’ve changed the route. The three-kilometre course starts at Black Creek Pioneer Village and ends at Yorkgate Mall at Jane and Finch streets.
“This is a challenged community,” Carnival CEO Christopher Alexander told CityNews.
“We want to make sure everybody knows the community is a great place to be, a great place to live … We want to continue to have the parade in the vicinity so we can continue to promote the area.”
The Junior Carnival Parade takes place July 16 at 11 a.m. The Grand Parade is two weeks later, on July 30. Click here for more information.
