First-ever CaribCan festival celebrates growing diversity in rural southwestern Ontario
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Residents of Oxford County attended the first-ever CaribCan Festival on Friday in Woodstock, Ont.
The Oxford Caribbean Canadian Association, composed of members of the area's growing Caribbean diaspora, organized the event. There was food, music and vendors from Black-owned businesses across southwestern Ontario.
CBC News stopped by to check it out.
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