Taylor Swift kicked off the final leg of her long-running Eras Tour with the first of nine shows in Canada, at Toronto’s Rogers Centre.

Taylor Swift told the Rogers Centre crowd: "I want to spend those last shows with the most generous, encouraging, welcoming, passionate, excitable fans — so we came to see you

The long-awaited Canadian arrival of Taylor Swift came with glitter, velvet and buckets of beads — and that was just among the superfans who gathered all day outside the concert