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Title: Ethnic Groups : Greeks
Contributor: [Reg Towers]
Description: Image of students in a class-room facing a blackboard containing Greek writing and English phrases. Accompanied by page of contextual annotations. Verso reads "Miss Irene Printezas teaches Greek literature in class in church classroom." Print has been cropped for publication.
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001 / 210 (1557)
Date: [March 1955]
Identifier: ASC08780
Identifier (PID): yul:98598

Title: Ethnic Groups : Greeks
Contributor: [Telegram staff]
Description: Image of five young women in costume, posting on a stairway outdoors. Verso reads: " May 19 1942. Greek Girls ' and caption "To-day is "Greek Day" in the nationwide campaign of the Canadian Red Cross Society for $9,000,000, and these Greek-Canadian lassies, dressed in the ancient costumes of their native land, took part in the special noon-day ceremony at the City Hall. Included in the group are Effie Jeffories, of London, who sang a Greek folk song and "The White Cliffs of Dover"; Evelyn Valachos, Brandford, whose brother won the Distinguished Flying Cross with the RAF, and is now a prisoner in Germany; Lillian Orfankos, North Bay; Edna Siampis, Toronto, Celia Kanakos, Toronto.
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001 / 210 (1557)
Date: [May 1942]
Identifier: ASC08789
Identifier (PID): yul:98131

Title: Ethnic Groups : Greeks
Contributor: [Martin Dunn]
Description: Image of group of at least fifteen men in bathing suits standing on the edge of pier at Burlington Beach, near Brant Inn. Immediately behind them and on a raised platform are two Orthodox priests giving benedictions flanked by two men in Greek fustanella, holding flags. A crowd of onlookers surround the group.
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001 / 210 (1557)
Date: 17 September 1961
Identifier: ASC08797
Identifier (PID): yul:558981

Title: Ethnic Groups : Greeks
Contributor: McFadden
Description: Image of Greek families arriving at Varsity Stadium to attend Orthodox Easter services.
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001 / 210 (1557)
Date: [Spring 1962]
Identifier: ASC07987
Identifier (PID): yul:557577

Title: Ethnic Groups : Greeks
Contributor: [Telegram staff]
Description: Image of men standing with large embroidered banners, some of which read "Society of Kastorians Omondia." Caption reads: "His feet and his Greek kilt are all that show of a 5-year-old Stanley Tsimicalis as he stands behind towering flags and banners at City Hall. The ceremony yesterday marked 142 years of Greek freedom from the Turks."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001 / 210 (1557)
Date: [March 1963]
Identifier: ASC08810
Identifier (PID): yul:233898

Title: Ethnic Groups : Greeks
Contributor: Jim Kennedy
Description: Image of Mrs. Virginia Dimitroff (left), and Mrs. Stojan Nicolov, looking over the array of Greek sweets, offered by Janet Maxwell and Gregory Stefanides at the Community Folk Art Council's Bake Sale, Blue Flame Room, Consumers’ Gas Company.
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001 / 210 (1557)
Date: [January 1967]
Identifier: ASC08808
Identifier (PID): yul:233896

Title: Ethnic Groups : Greeks
Contributor: [Nelson] Quarrington
Description: Image of group of men in traditional fustanella costume led by a young man carrying a wreath, flanked by two women in traditional Greek costume walking from St. George's Greek Orthodox Church, Bond St., west along Queen Street to the Cenotaph at City Hall.
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001 / 210 (1557)
Date: 30 March [1952]
Identifier: ASC08804
Identifier (PID): yul:233892

Title: Ethnic Groups : Greeks
Contributor: [Nelson] Quarrington
Description: Image of Greek Consul, Mr. Steve G. Rockanas (left) and President of the Greek Community of Ontario, Mr. Charles Brown (right) present a memorial wreath at the Cenotaph outside Toronto's City Hall. The men are flanked by young men and women in traditional Greek costumes and a girl and boy holding Greek flags. Large crowd gathers along steps to city hall. Photographer instructions on reverse read: "Time: 12:45 Place: St. George's Greek Orthodox Church, 117 Bond Street For: Parade will set out from here to city hall where Greek Consul Mr. Steve G. Rockanas will lay wreath at cenotaph. Should have shot of parade and laying of wreath."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001 / 210 (1557)
Date: 30 March [1952]
Identifier: ASC08803
Identifier (PID): yul:233891

Title: Ethnic Groups : Greeks
Contributor: Quarrington
Description: Image of women in traditional Greek costume marching west on Queen Street holding a British flag. Caption reads: "Anniversary parade. Colourful costumes of their native land are worn by paraders from St. George's Greek Orthodox Church, Bond St., who marched to City Hall yesterday in the anniversary celebrations of Greek emancipation from Turkish rule. A band and many fraternal organizations took part. Wreath was laid at the City Hall Cenotaph by Greek Consul S.G. Rockanas."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001 / 210 (1557)
Date: [30 March 1952]
Identifier: ASC08802
Identifier (PID): yul:233890

Title: Ethnic Groups : Greeks
Contributor: Telegram staff
Description: Image of Betty Bates, with donation box for the Greek War Relief Fund, "tagging" an unidentified Canadian soldier who made a donation (image marked up by photo editor). Layered on top of image is close-up of one of the "tags" featuring British and Greek flags and words "Together to Victory Greek War Victims."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001 / 210 (1557)
Date: [February 1941]
Identifier: ASC08801
Identifier (PID): yul:233889

Title: Ethnic Groups : Greeks
Contributor: [Hugh] Winsor
Description: Image of crowd of men and women outside Massey Hall. Attached caption reads: "More than 2,000 members of Toronto's Greek community turned out at Massey Hall yesterday to celebrate the 141st anniversary of Greece's independence. Ane Mayor Nate Phillips told them that in doiing so they were becoming better Canadians. Said the Mayor: "It is very good to live in a free country where every ethnic grood can live in freedom practising its own religion and keeping up its own traditions. "I Think it is wonderful because Greece has given the world a culture in language and art that has endured for thousands of centuries and will continue to endure as long as the world endures." By practising their traditions in Toronto, the mayor said, Toronto's Greeks make the city more cosmopolitan and at the same time exercise their right to freeddom, which makes them better Canadians. The independence celebrations included a program of Greek National Dancing and singing."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001 / 210 (1557)
Date: [March 1962]
Identifier: ASC08783
Identifier (PID): yul:233881

Title: Ethnic Groups : Greeks
Contributor: [Hugh] Winsor
Description: Image of Joanne Tzoitis, looking up at patriotic poster featuring a symbolic figure of Greece with a sword, Greek Orthodox priest and an evzones soldier holding a flag with a dark cross on a light background. Verso reads: "Four-year-old Joanne Tzoitis, in Greek national costume, learns from a mural of Greece's struggle for independence. Joanne and 2,000 members of Toronto's Greek community were at Massey Hall yesterday to celebrate the 141st anniversary of independence. Mayor Nathan Phillips spoke.
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001 / 210 (1557)
Date: March 1962
Identifier: ASC08779
Identifier (PID): yul:233879