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"The 80 Goes to Sparta" is a touching documentary showing the life of Greeks living in Montreal in the late 1960s, produced by the National Film Board of Canada. Writer and director Bill Davies opens with a shot from within...

The Cretan Association of Montreal will be celebrating the 400th anniversary of the death of the famous Cretan painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos a.k.a El Greco, who lived and thrived in Spain. The celebration will feature the Yiannis Smaragdis film “El...

The President of the Cretan Association of Montreal, Michael Christodoulakis, has written to the President of Regional Council to give thanks for their participation in the Cretan events held in Montreal. He stated that, "Although we are about 8000 miles...

The regional governor of Crete, Stavros Arnaoutakis is visiting Montreal in order to attend thecelebration of the 100th anniversary since the foundation of the Cretans Association in the city. In a statement, Arnaoutakis expressed his pride regarding Greeks’ achievements in...

The island of Crete is known for spawning some of Europe's longest-standing advanced cultural innovations, dating back to the ancient Minoans of Crete five millenniums ago. Montrealers with roots in Greece's most-populous island have lived in their adopted country a...

A branch of the Eleftherios Venizelos National Foundation for Research-Study will operate shortly in Montreal, Canada, according to an announcement by the foundation’s general manager, Nikolaos Papadakis during a visit to the headquarters in Hania by a delegation of...

The Hellenic Scholarships Foundation awarded young Greek-Canadian scientists that excelled in their studies, for the twenty-sixth consecutive year during an event organized at the McGill University reception hall. The evening was presented by President Dr John Hadjinicolaou and Dr. Eva Kehayia, Physiotherapy...

The Consul General of Greece in Canada, Thanos Kafopoulos, the president of the Greek Community of Montreal, Nikos Pagonis and the vice president of the Cretan Association of Montreal, Mihalis Christodoulakis, have had successive meetings with the governor of...

The Hellenic Scholarship Foundation in a ceremony at the hall of the University of McGill, awarded on Saturday, February 22, eleven scholarships to the excelling Greek students of the universities of Quebec. The President of the foundation, John Hadjinicolaou mentioned...