Canada

Starting on March 12, 2022, visitors to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto, can experience Kore 670 — a gift to a goddess, one of the best-preserved and most stunningly beautiful Korai statues from the Acropolis of Athens. To...

The official inauguration of the new Digital Museum of Greek Immigration to Canada took place on Friday, May 24, in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Part of ''ImmiGrec'' and supported by Greece’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), the new Museum has developed a...

The official opening of the Digital Museum of Greek Immigration to Canada is scheduled for Friday, May 24, in Montréal, Quebec, Canada, according to an announcement released by the "ImmiGrec Project." The main goal of ImmiGrec, which is supported by Greece’s...

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,...

After the unveiling of the bronze Sculpture of the Greek Immigrant on June 30 at the corner of Jean Talon Street and Park Avenue in Montreal, with Mayor Denis Coderre present, in the enclave of Hellenism, Parc-Extension, the next...

In a reception organized by the Consulate General of Greece in Vancouver and the Greek community of Victoria, a unique collection of Greek traditional costumes was donated to the Greek Folk Art Museum. The Consul General of Greece in Vancouver, Ilias...

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...

According to the popular Canadian newspaper, Toronto Star, the Acropolis Museum restaurant is among the top 5 museum restaurants throughout the world. The newspaper in an article entitled "Museum restaurants: Top 5 places to eat" ranks Acropolis Museum restaurant among...

About 500 treasures of Greek antiquity will be exhibited at the Canadian Museum of Civilization beginning in June 2015. The Museum is going to present: The Greeks - From Agamemnon to Alexander the Great. The artifacts, from 22 Museums, include the...

Andrew Cohen, associate professor of journalism and international affairs in Carleton University in Ottawa, lauded the way Greek museums operate and their available hours, in an article in the newspaper Ottawa Citizen. The title of the long article is Canada’s...

Surrey Museum in British Columbia, Canada announced its summer program which is full of events focused on Greek culture for both adults and kids. Officials of the Musuem call  oncitizens of Surrey to learn about Greek gods, the nine  Muses...

A lecture on the New Acropolis Museum, entitled “The New Acropolis Museum: Architecture and Collections” was organized by the Hellenic Canadian Academic Association of Ontario (HCAAO), the Hellenic Heritage Foundation and SAE Canada Region at the Royal Museum of...

An estimated 4,000 ounces of gold believed to be on board a ship that sank off of the British Columbia coast in 1875 remains unclaimed 150 years after the disaster. SS Pacific was a wooden sidewheel steamer built in 1850...

King Charles is preparing to sell the late Queen’s beloved race horses as he begins "winding down" his mother's racing operation. At Newmarket's Tattersalls this month, a third of the top racehorses he inherited will be sold, and top of...

To commemorate the anniversary of the Smyrna Catastrophe exactly a hundred years ago, the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) has produced its latest historical podcast series Exodus: The Stories of 1922. In the days, weeks, and months that followed the Great...