More than 100 so far, he said. It began 17 years ago with a float for the Island Farms Victoria Day Parade. The one hitch has been that the parade comes during a busy time on the farm.

Alf Iannarelli, Santa Claus Parade creative director, tells the Star about the year it takes to create a parade’s worth of floats — and why no float ever ends up in the trash.

A Parade float takes approximately four months to construct (with added time for ideation and design.) If the Macy’s Studios team were to start from scratch and build all of floats that will appear in ...

Video: Architecture float lights up holiday parade Architecture's entry in the 2004 Parade of Lights provided a moving video of the parade's spectators lining the streets. The images were ...

KITCHENER — A 2.4-metre (eight-foot) turkey will be the new star in the annual Oktoberfest Thanksgiving parade float, and the big bird needs a name.