Southern Albertans tightened their shoelaces and threw on their green attire for the 39th annual St. Patrick's Day parade in Carmangay.
"People look forward to it and everybody works together to pull it off," said Kym Nichols, mayor of the Village of Carmangay.Known as one of the world's shortest St. Patrick's Day parade, the spectacle starts at the village office and ends at the former site of the Grange Hotel, which is just across the street. "I come back because I'm celebrating the Irish," said Lynn Johnson, who's been taking part in the parade since 2015.
The parade has brought out hundreds of people over the past four decades. "Thirty-nine years ago, George Johnson and Jim O'Connor, Jim O'Connor owned the hotel," Nichols said."Jim went to get his mail and George was there and he said, 'Hey, how about you follow me back to the hotel and we'll have a beer and we'll call it the St. Paddy's Day parade?' And that's how it started."But, on March 28, 2021, the Grange Hotel was destroyed by a fire.
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