ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the ways in which Greeks in Canada have commemorated the 1821 Revolution or “Greek Independence Day” and argues that as perceptions about Greeks in Canada and Greece changed during the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, so did the representations, manifestations, and performances projected by Greeks in Canada. Perceptions Canadians held about Greeks changed during the twentieth century, reflecting the place of Greece in Canadian popular and official discourse as well as the numbers and institutional organization of Greeks in Canada. This chapter analyzes various Canadian newspaper photographs and articles since 1925, when “Independence Day” was celebrated for the first time in Toronto and around the same time in Montreal.
