Swifties took over Toronto Thursday as they geared up for pop superstar Taylor Swift’s first Canadian show on her globe-spanning, record-breaking Eras Tour. Swift will play six consecutive sold-out shows at Rogers Centre that had fans scrambling for a year to secure tickets and accommodations.

Taylor Swift takes her Eras Tour to Canada for the final nine shows of the epic concert series, kicking it off in Toronto on Thursday night for six shows over the last two weeks of November. Swift will wrap up the nearly two-year tour on December 8 in Vancouver.

When Taylor Swift comes to town, local economies spring to life as hotels fill up, public transit heaves and traffic grinds to a halt, sometimes on streets recently renamed in her honor.