Canada

The exhibition The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander The Great will be hosted in four museums in Canada and the USA from December 2014 to September 2016. The exhibition will be presented at the Royal Ontario Museum, the Canadian Museum of...

The exhibition “The Greeks - Agamemnon to Alexander the Great” at the archaeological museum of Pointe-à-Callière in Montreal, Canada, has ended after four successful months. “Pointe-à-Callière, Montreal’s Archaeology and History Complex, is proud to announce that 132,156 visitors came through...

Polar Bear Swim: The title sort of speaks for itself, launched in Canada in 1920 by Greek immigrant Peter (Pete) Pantages.

A Greek Orthodox nonprofit in Toronto that owns churches and schools and hosts the gigantic "Taste of the Danforth" Greek folk festival every summer might soon be forced to sell one of its properties due to a precipitous drop...

Greek-Canadians united in celebration with diaspora across the globe over last weekend as Greeks lined the streets for Oxi Day parades. Toronto hosted its annual Oxi day parade on October 30, in which some 30 different community groups participated. Churches...

The Parliament Vice President of Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia Antonio Milososki made a provocative appearance at a national celebration having in the background a map that includes several Greek territories reaching to Mount Olympus in central Greece. The event...

The inauguration of “The Greeks - Agamemnon to Alexander the Great” exhibition took place in Ottawa, Canada, in the grand hall of the Canadian Museum of History. Approximately 1,000 people attended the largest inauguration event that has been held...

Thousands of Greek-Canadians flooded Danforth Avenue in Toronto holding Greek flags to celebrate the Greek Independence Day. The Consul General of Greece, Alexandros Ioannidis, and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne along with other Canadian officials attended the event. Children and adults marched...

A very important exhibition of Greek antiquities entitled "The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great" premiered on December 12 at the Pointe-a-Calliere Museum in Montreal. The exhibition presents antiquities that have never traveled outside of Greece. The 543 ancient artifacts...

One of the most significant exhibitions that has ever traveled outside of Greece has been scheduled to open on December 12. Pointe-à-Callière Museum in Montreal will be the first stop in its tour around North America. The exhibition, entitled "The...

Canadian author W. Ruth Kozak published her debut work “Shadow Of The Lion (Vol 1): Blood On The Moon” earlier this year. The Greek history based book was presented at a successful book reception in Athens, Greece, while the author...

For yet another year, the Greek community of Montreal celebrated the “Oxi” national day with brilliance and mass participation on Sunday. Doxology for those who gave their life in the Albanian Front took place in Saint George Cathedral by...

AHEPA Canada, one of the largest Greek organizations in the country, released an announcement condemning the publication of a map by the Toronto branch of UM (United Macedonians Organization of Canada) in the Toronto Star issue of July 31, 2014,...

Canada's Greek community held a ceremony to bid farewell to the motherland's departing diplomats at the end of their tenures in Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal. Greece's Ambassador to Canada, Eleftherios Anghelopoulos, and its Consuls General for Toronto and Montreal, Dimitris Azemopoulos and Thanos Kafopoulos, respectively were the...

The museum of Montreal Pointe-a-Calliere, will host a major exhibition on ancient Greece that will be launched late this year. The display entitled “The Greeks -- Agamemnon to Alexander the Great” will bring together more than 500 artifacts from 22...