August 1 - 5, 2024
Toronto’s Caribbean Carnival is a colourful celebration of the hundreds of thousands of Jamaicans, Trinidadians, Haitians, Dominicans, Bermudans and Guyanans who make up the city’s Afro-Caribbean community traditionally centred in the York District.
Every year since its founding in the 1960s by Dr. Maurice Bygrave and others in the community, the Caribbean Carnival fills Toronto with the sounds of reggae, calypso, tassa, zouk, salsa and rap; the delicious scents and flavours of West Indian cuisine; and a crowning of the Carnival King and Queen that even spring rain showers haven’t been able to squelch.