Info on IFOA in Toronto:
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.c...=A1ARTA0012271
IFOA is part of the AUTHORS program, which apparently draws 80,000 people *a year* to its events, which includes the IFOA festival.
Le Salon du livre de Montréal draws 120,000 people in five days.
Gatineau's Salon du livre de l'Outaouais draws 35,000 visitors in five days in a metro of 1.2 million people, of which only 350,000-400,000 can be said to be literate in French.
Quebec City's Salon du livre draws close to 70,000 people every year, over five days as well.
Even Trois-Rivières (with about 150,000 people soaking wet) gets 15,000 people out to its Salon du livre.
Not to harp on this, but it is somewhat annoying to be force-fed braggadocio about how Toronto has the biggest, bestest, mostest, etc. of everything in Canada, and we are expected to swallow it without asking any questions "just because it's Toronto".
I wonder if people in Sao Paulo claim that their city's annual carnaval is bigger than Rio's?