By Chris Tinglin

Toronto’s Caribana parade is known the world over, drawing more than one million revellers every year for its bumper crop of imagination; it is spectacle after sparkling spectacle, accompanied by joy-inducing, waist-winding, and inhibition-loosening calypso/soca music. Of lesser fame is the Junior Carnival parade—which this year was held in the under-celebrated Jane-Finch area—but it remains fertile ground for future generations of mas masters.
Torontoist was there on Saturday to bring you a Happy Meal–sized taste of what’s in store in two weeks’ time.
All photos by H.C. Tinglin/Torontoist.