Canada

Byers, Michele and Evangelia Tastsoglou. “Negotiating Ethno-Cultural Identity: The Experience of Greek and Jewish Youth in Halifax.” Canadian Ethnic Studies. 40.2 (2008): 5–33.

Elafros, Athena.  “Bouzouki HipHop?  Representation and Identity in Greek-Canadian Rap Music.”  Spanning the Distance: Popular Music in Canada.  Holly Everett and Charity Marsh, eds.

Gallant, Thomas, George Treheles, and Michael Vitopoulos. The 1918 Anti-Greek Riot in Toronto.
Toronto: Thessalonikeans Society of Metro Toronto: Canadian Hellenic Historical Society, 2005.

Greek Canadian History Project

The Greek Canadian History Project (GCHP) is an initiative designed and committed to identifying, acquiring, digitizing, preserving, and providing access to primary source materials that reflect the experiences of Canada’s Greek immigrants and their descendants. The collected sources, currently in the hands of private individuals and organizations in the Greek-Canadian community, will be placed in the care of the Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections of York University Libraries. Recently, we had a large donation of materials from a politically and culturally active member of Toronto’s Greek community. Also, the GCHP was invited to the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Canadian Institute in Greece (Athens) for presentations on the project’s goals and progress. Additionally, for a full week in May 2014, the GCHP had a large display of historical materials related to the Greek immigrant experience set up in the main foyer of Toronto City Hall.

Jeffreys, Peter. Saint George’s Greek Orthodox Church: An Architectural and Iconographic Guide. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press (private printing), 2000.

Pabst, Stavroula. One (Wo)man’s Shopping is the Same (Wo)man’s history? Immigration, Advertisement and Consumption Patterns in the Greek Community of Montreal 1960s– 1970s. Thesis, Master of Arts (History). McGill University, 2018.

Panagakos, Anastasia N.  “Tracking Recycled Odyssey: Creating Transnational Families in The Greek Diaspora.”  Global Networks.  Vol. 4, Issue 3 (2004): 299-311.

“In this article Panagakos explores the types of transnational families forged by Greek Canadian women through cycles of migration between Canada and Greece. The focus is on how transmigrant women search for a spouse and heterosexual lifestyle embodied within a seemingly ‘authentic’ Greek experience. This recycled odyssey in which the women negotiate systems of gender and ethnic identification between two different social milieux highlights how parental guidance, class tensions and representations of gender and sexuality (re)form the Greek transnational family. These conflicts, and their resolutions, indicate how the ties of transnational families are negotiated to accommodate competing notions of sexuality, femininity, filial piety, parental investment and economic responsibility. Such cases are poorly documented since it is assumed that ‘white’ ethnic groups in North America are more assimilated. However, given the forces that drive transnationalism  such as global capital, cheap travel, telecommunications and European integration  belonging to an imagined community has different implications than it did in the past.”

Souvaliotis, Andreas. Misfit: Changemaker with an Edge. Toronto: Andreas Souvaliotis, 2013.

Resource Portals

Greek Canadian History Project is transitioning to a new site.