Record crowds and hard lessons at the Laval summer festival
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter On the grounds of the Holy Cross church on Chemin du Souvenir, the line at the gate stretched down the sidewalk…
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Hellenic Flame festival fills Saint-Roch Street for the Dekapentavgousto
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter For two August evenings, Saint-Roch Street belonged to the parikia again. Traffic gave way to long rows of banquet tables running…
Festival by the rapids anchors a growing Greek parish in LaSalle
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter By the water’s edge at Parc des Rapides, under white tents pitched among the trees, the sounds of a Greek village…
One family’s festival keeps a Cretan vow in Park Extension
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The smallest festival of the Greek summer may be the most personal one. In the yard of the Evangelismos tis Theotokou…
Greek-Canadian executive helps steer Montreal’s push into mining artificial intelligence
Inside the glass-walled offices of KPI Digital in the Technoparc of Ville Saint-Laurent, staff set aside their morning work on October 14 and gathered among…
The founding of Evangelismos, Canada’s first Greek Orthodox church
From a summer liturgy to Saint Lawrence Boulevard: the founding of Montreal’s first Greek church Three decades after a borrowed hall first echoed with…
Liturgy returns to Saint Paraskevi chapel in Elgin Quebec after years of silence
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Beneath the old trees of a farm in Elgin, a small white chapel with a stone porch and four turquoise columns…
Community assembly weighs surplus, schools and crumbling roofs
Autumn sunshine still warmed the grounds of the Hellenic Community Centre of the South Shore in Saint-Hubert on the afternoon of Sunday, October 18,…
Greek lawmakers hear Montreal’s case for schools, culture and youth
Beneath a Greek flag and the blue banner of the European Union, in a wood-panelled committee room hung with deep red curtains and a painting…
The first Greek families of Montreal
The second instalment of this series traces the pioneers who came ashore from 1843, the crop crisis that swelled their ranks, and the founding of…