Pride attendance numbers unverified: Canadian Press
Posted July 7, 2011 4:32 pm.
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Organizers of Toronto’s Pride parade say Sunday’s event may have been one of the largest ever, but it’s unclear exactly how many revellers attended the festivities.
The Canadian Press included a figure for the estimated size of the crowd in its coverage of the parade Sunday – reporting without attribution that more than one million were on hand.
But any such a figure cannot be confirmed as neither organizers nor police provided crowd estimates.
Pride Toronto says on its website the Pride Week festival is one of the largest in the world and the 10-day event has an estimated attendance of more than 1.2 million.
However, that figure is not an estimate for the crowd at the 2011 parade.
“We’ve gotten out of the habit of trying to estimate crowds since we don’t have a reliable methodology for doing so,” Glen Brown, interim executive director of Pride Toronto, said in an email. “It appeared to be one of our largest.”
Toronto police also did not provide an estimate, saying they don’t give crowd estimates for events for operational reasons.
