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St. Patrick's Day Waterloo: Massive crowds descend on Marshall Street after Ezra Avenue fenced off By Alexandra Pinto and Jeff Pickel Published : March 17, 2022 at 11:58AM EDT Last year, Waterloo bylaw officers issued 16 fines over the St. Patrick’s Day weekend. In 2023, over 200 charges were laid during the city’s unsanctioned street parties. Mirshahi recalled police issuing hundreds of tickets on St. Patrick’s Day alone in 2018, which he felt was an intimidation tactic to scare students off the streets. The University District of Waterloo includes the Northdale and MacGregor neighbourhoods, as well as Waterloo Park and the majority of the uptown neighbourhood. It also includes Ezra Avenue, the typical location of the St. Patrick’s Day street party. The St. Patrick’s Day bash on Ezra Ave attracted a crowd yesterday estimated at 30,000 Food and Drink; Home and Garden; 30,000 party for St. Patrick’s Day on Waterloo’s Ezra Avenue In 2019, police estimated that 33,000 people gathered on Ezra Avenue on St. Patrick’s Day, which led to 80 calls for paramedics while a similar amount of people visited emergency rooms at the Laurier students have long made Saint Patrick’s Day their unofficial school holiday and in recent years, the City of Waterloo has struggled to contain the event. What started as a massive gathering on Ezra Avenue eventually prompted city officials to act, fencing off the street and increasing police presence. The parties took a couple of years off in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic but last year, Waterloo regional police closed down Ezra Avenue in a bid to stop the celebration but revellers just Several rows of fencing was wrapped around the streets and sidewalks located on Ezra Avenue to prevent an unsanctioned gathering for St Patrick's Day. Historically, thousands of students have Fencing on Ezra Avenue has been erected since 2022 to discourage student gatherings for St. Patrick’s Day in Waterloo. Police are looking at more strategies to curb crowds. Fencing has gone up on Ezra Avenue, in Waterloo, Ont.’s university district, in the hopes it will deter people from taking part in unsanctioned St. Patrick’s Day street parties. Saturday afternoon saw Waterloo Regional Police officers responding to gatherings in the Marshall Street and Regina Street North area. That is just around the corner from nearby Ezra Avenue, where the annual St. Patrick’s Day unsanctioned street gatherings have traditionally taken place. This Sunday, thousands will dress in green and hit Ezra Avenue and neighbouring streets in Waterloo’s university district to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. A 21-year-old student and each of her nine roommates are $800 poorer after St. Patrick’s Day celebrations this past weekend. The Burlington native, who lives at the corner of Marshall and Regina Days ahead of St. Patrick’s Day, barriers and no-parking signs are already going up on Ezra Avenue in Waterloo, in an effort to contain potentially dangerous street parties. Partygoers are seen taking over Ezra Avenue in Waterloo on St. Patrick's Day in this photo from 2018. (Joe Pavia/CBC) WATERLOO — Thousands of young revelers turned Ezra Avenue into a giant, mud-soaked, beer-drenched outdoor party Friday, in one of the largest St. Patrick’s Day gatherings police have ever seen. Waterloo Regional Police have estimated that 33,000 people were at the unsanctioned street party on Ezra Avenue on St. Patrick’s Day at its highpoint. Waterloo Regional Police have estimated Final bill for Ezra Avenue St. Patrick’s Day street party in Waterloo: $767,211 Food Health Music Ezra Avenue St. Patrick’s Day crowd peaked at 33,000 people: Before the COVID-19 pandemic, tens of thousands of people would flood Ezra Avenue in Waterloo, Ont. for an unsanctioned street party. But with most of the street fenced off this St. Patrick's Day Ezra Avenue's infamous St. Patrick's Day celebrations in Waterloo have been pretty tame over the last two pandemic years. In the past, tens of thousands of people descended on the street for an
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