After a two-year absence, the traditional St. Patrick’s Day parade returned to Sainte-Catherine Street on Sunday morning for its 197th edition.
The parade started at 9:30am on Lambert-Closse to descend Sainte-Catherine Street and was due to end at Philips Square and Saint-Patrick’s Basilica around noon.
The route is slightly longer this year, but the parade will be smaller and will welcome far fewer participants due to health measures related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Therefore, the animations are less numerous than in the previous editions and the commercial tanks are absent from the procession.
At the last parade in March 2019, around 2,000 extras marched in the metropolis. The participants were accompanied by about twenty allegorical floats and about fifteen brass bands.
Around 200,000 spectators took part in the parade at the time.