I don't have pics, but I (and some friends) attended the first Anime North convention in Toronto in 199...7? I think?
God, what a failure. We walked into the hotel, and in the lobby area there was a mailing list sign-up sheet, and a dude with a few Dragonball figures on his table. Was he selling them? I don't know. If so, it was an odd area for a dealer table. I think they may have had a room or two showing anime, but I don't think anything interested us.
So we went to the basement, where everyone was congregating (for some reason). Awesome! It was a bunch of people (including some of the stereotypical fat cosplayers -- a particular Sailor Saturn is still burned into my mind) just hanging around chatting. There was one table that had people drawing in sketchbooks, but for the most part people were just milling around. The most memorable thing for me was finding a vending machine that sold Five Alive juice boxes, as I hadn't seen Five Alive in a store for years at that point. We stayed for a few more minutes before finding saying "screw it" and hanging around Toronto for the rest of our time there.
In addition, the enjoyment of said trip was hampered by the fact that my friends and I made the trip to Toronto and back in a single day (because a friend's dad was our guardian on the trip, as we were all under 18, and that's how he set up the trip). Ugh. Woke up at 2 or 3 in the morning, rode a train for God knows how many hours (and our car had a high school choral group constantly singing...yay), then spent a gorgeous day in Toronto, then at 8 or 9 had to be back at the station for another long train ride back home. Definitely not the best way to take in Toronto, believe me.