Vancouver

June is Greek Heritage Month, and areas all around Metro Vancouver are getting ready to celebrate. Greek Day on Broadway is the largest one day Greek festival in Vancouver and the grand finale event of the month-long Greek Heritage Festival. The...

Greek contemporary music enthusiasts are preparing for a double dose of entertainment this coming weekend, with popular Greek singers from Greece Michalis Haztigiannis and Giorgos Mazonakis, who will be performing back to back on two separate nights, in Vancouver. Greek...

Over 43,800 airline seats from Greece to Canada are now available, as Air Transat, Canada's leading leisure airline, has just increased capacity from Athens by 14 percent, in comparison to last year. Flights that connect Athens to Toronto and Montreal...

2018 marks the 42nd year of the annual Gold Plate Dinner event of the Vancouver Hellenic Community. This year's dinner will be on May 16 and, as always, is being held at the Hellenic Community Centre located at 4500 Arbutus...

The unveiling of the bust of Ioannis Apostolos Fokas, the Kefalonian explorer who is better known world-wide as Juan de Fuca, was held on April 24, at the Museum of Vancouver (MOV), Vanier Park, in the Joyce Walley Room. The bust,...

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, has just welcomed their first group of interns for their program Rebooting the Greek Language. The Foundation has donated a CA$2million grant to Simon...

  Greek explorer Ioannis Phokas (Greek: Ἰωάννης Φωκᾶς) better known by his Spanish name, Juan de Fuca, is to be honored with a statue in Vancouver -- despite previous claims he never existed at all. Born in 1536 on the Greek Ionian...

The Vancouver Greek Food Festival is set to take off once again on Friday, April 20, and continue up until Monday, April 23, at the Hellenic Community Centre of Vancouver, British Columbia, located at 4500 Arbutus Street. This year marks...

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies will be presenting Professor Loukas Tsoukalis, President of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy and leading expert on European integration, for this year's Edward and Emily McWhinney Memorial Lecture, entitled: "Brexit...

The Embassy of Canada to the Hellenic Republic posted on their Facebook page that February 9 is International Greek Language Day. "Greek holds an important place in the history of the Western world. It is also the foundational language of...