Greeks in Canada: a Resercher’s Approach

Abstract

The very first presence of Greeks on Canadian soil may be traced back to 1592, long before Canada herself had become a Federal State (1867). It was, however, in 1906 that the first Greek community organization in Canada was established in Montreal, and in 1921 that the first book was published dealing with Canada’s Greeks. This paper attempts a synoptic analysis of all existing studies dealing with Canadians of Greek descent by pointing to: a) the urgent need for further research on the different Greek-Canadian issues within an integrated scheme of analysis all across Canada, and b) the carious correlates – demographic, social, cultural, political and economic – of the existing research on Canada’s Greeks. The entire analysis haw been based on a grand total of seventy-seven such studies located after a two-year, Canada-wide search.