St. Patrick’s parade Sunday
CBC has an item on the St Patrick’s parade to be held Sunday (which isn’t St Patrick’s Day, which falls on Monday this year). The parade is generally being touted as the 200th, although CBC cites four historical cancellations in the piece, and I found evidence of a cancellation in 1918 which CBC doesn’t cite.
So maybe it’s fair to say it’s been 200 years since the first parade, rather than that it’s the 200th parade, if it matters.
And so, we have this parade with a big effigy of a Roman Catholic saint, but don’t anyone dare pray to it…
Blork 15:14 on 2025-03-14 Permalink
Also, unless there are twice as many fleurs-de-lys as shamrocks, and they’re twice as big, and every Guinness reference is dominated by a Caribou logo, then funding will be cut and we’ll all be deported.
Kate 09:50 on 2025-03-15 Permalink
It would be quite a scene to be sent back to Ireland after four to five generations here. Plague ships and all. I must see if I have something that would serve as a shawl.