Once Upon a City: Why St. Patrick’s Day parade was banned for 110 years. Archives
Not that he’d had a front-row seat to the shenanigans, but D’Arcy Hinds had heard the tales of Toronto’s green-tinged troubles when he was just knee-high to a Guinness.
No doubt, smiling eyes will look upon Sunday’s spectacle, which starts at noon at Bloor and St. George Sts. Celebrating 100 years of Irish heritage and culture, the parade also marks the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising, which paved the way for Irish independence from Britain. To everyone else, the event was “an annual reminder of the existence of a substantial alien Irish presence” and their “obsession with the problems of their homeland,” Cottrell observed.
This religious sectarianism between the poorer Catholic minority and more affluent Protestant majority wasn’t helped by the fact that most of Toronto’s police officers were Orangemen, who would join their brethren in brawls with Catholics. Attitudes had changed and “the time is ripe” to resume the tradition, said Dublin-born Sean Moore, spokesman for the St. Patrick’s Parade Society, which was determined to keep religion and politics out of the mix.
“I remember signs on industries, ‘No dogs or Irishmen on the premises,’” said the Don Mills resident.
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