by Sakis Gekas
Toronto is one of the world’s most diverse cities. It is in this city that a small team of Greek and Greek Canadian researchers have taken on the task of making the history of Greeks in Canada as mainstream as possible. Making history mainstream does not mean sanitizing or beautifying it but practicing history with a critical view of the past that is attuned to the questions and the challenges of the present. The group of researchers in Toronto clusters around the activities of the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) Chair in Modern Greek History at York University, a vantage point that I will take up in this essay to reflect on the significance of Greek Canadian texts, historical events, and cultural situations for expanding the understanding of Greek and Canadian history through the generation of public resources.