Montreal 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…