Toronto-Carib-Soc-History 1

The club West Indies United (WIU) was formed in January 1968 by Mr. Carl Bailey and a bunch of guys, mostly from the Windward and Leeward islands . Bailey retired as a police officer and migrated to Leeds, England from St Kitts in 1960

He began following the National Soccer League (NSL) where he was saw Caribbean players he thought could have helped his team. Little did he know that his fortune was about to change after the Sudbury Italia team was involved in a brawl and the Caribbean players decided to stop playing for the club. The brawl was the first game that Neville Glanville had played and he convinced his Caribbean teammates to stop playing for the team. Wasting no time in Toronto he rekindled his friendships and formed the Toronto version of the West Indies United Club. That was after he became the Treasurer of both the Anguilla, St Kitts and Nevis and Sickle Cell Associations before Neville Glanville took over the club.

Continuing his search for betterment Bailey moved to Toronto with his wife, Mildred, and daughter, Sharon, from Leeds, England, in 1967 where he had also managed a West Indies United football team.