In Dauphin, you can’t have a parade without Ukrainian music — even when it’s the Stanley Cup on parade.
The National Hockey League trophy rode on a float in a two-kilometre arc through Dauphin on Wednesday, accompanied by a Ukrainian band, Dauphinites in Ukrainian costume and the horsemen and women of Canada’s National Riding & Dancing Cossacks.
Vintage clothing was worn. Vintage muskets were fired. Alcohol of dubious vintage was poured into Lord Stanley’s mug on an afternoon when more than a thousand people — roughly one in eight Dauphin residents — took time out of a weekday to celebrate the achievement of Cup-winning Dauphinite Barry Trotz.
