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Fonds consists of records related to the development and activities of the Cephalonia-Ithaca Association of Toronto including correspondence, event planning documents, membership lists, invoices, business records, meeting minutes, newsletters, advertisements and related ephemera.

Fonds consists of records related to the life of Frosini (Frances) Themeliopoulos, including a passport, report cards and certificates from the Greek Community of Metropolitan Toronto’s Greek language school, photographs of association members, and records related to the the Regional Association of Trifylion-Messinias. Fonds also includes a meeting minutes package from a Toronto District School Board designating the month of March as Greek Heritage Month.

Fonds consists of materials created and accumulated by George Papadatos in the course of his activities as a member of the Toronto Greek Canadian political, arts and cultural community while living in exile in Canada during the Greek military junta of 1967-1974. It includes records relating to his work as a journalist and newspaper editor (as editor of Metanastis and contributor to Ta Nea, amongst other publications); political activist; music promoter, event organizer and co-owner of the Trojan Horse coffee house; East York community service worker; and as tutor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Toronto (Scarborough College).

The fonds largely consists of photographs, newspapers, promotional material, posters, sound and video recordings. Many of these items were collected by Papadatos to document the coffee house scene on the Danforth, the Greek musical acts who toured Canada and the United States in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as student organizing and protests related to local opposition to the military dictatorship in Greece. The records reflect the impact that the cultural and political activities of the Greek community in Canada had on political affairs in Greece. The fonds also includes handwritten and typed correspondence and other printed material created or received by George Papadatos, as well as photographic material from Papadatos' later life in Greece, where he operated an antiquarian bookstore. Records in the fonds have been arranged into five series based on record genre. See series level descriptions for details.

Fonds consists of personal publications written by George Thaniel, including his curriculum vitae and the complete collection of The Amaranth journals. Fonds also consists of audio cassettes recordings used by Thaniel in the course of his work as professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Toronto. Recordings include interviews with Modern Greek authors and poets, poetry and prose readings, live theatre recordings, and music performances, in addition to discussions and lectures. Audio recordings further include Thaniel reciting his own poetry, as well as a memorial that was recorded posthumously following his sudden death in June 1991.

Fonds consists of records documenting the activities and John Sotos’ involvement in the Canadian Ethnocultural Council, the Hellenic Canadian Congress, the Greek Community of Metropolitan Toronto, the Hellenic Heritage Foundation, and the Hellenic-Canadian Federation of Ontario.

Fonds consists of event programs from Greek Orthodox Clergy-Laity and Philoptochos assemblies, as well as records documenting the activities of the Greek Ladies’ Philanthropic Association (“philoptochos”) of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Cathedral, such as financial statements, newspaper clippings, meeting agendas, and correspondence. Fonds also includes 2 ledger books documenting the revenue and expenses as well as the cash disbursement of the Ladies’ Philanthropic Association of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Cathedral. Fonds further includes a scrapbook documenting her activities with the the Ladies Philanthropic Association (“Philoptohos”) of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Cathedral.

Collection consists of two bound volumes prepared by the Office of the Chief of Protocol, Department of External Affairs documenting the program for the 1983 state visit of former Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou and Mrs. Papandreou to Canada.