Anonymous 4
Interviewer(s):
Effrosyni Rantou
Project:
Greek Canadian Stories
INTERVIEW LOCATION:
Toronto, ON
LANGUAGE:
Greek
DATE:
July 22, 2024

Interview Summary:

The interviewee was born in 1947 in a village not far from Florina. She migrated to Canada in 1963 after her sibling’s invitation, meeting her husband on the ship that brought her to Canada. The interviewee worked many different jobs in Toronto, including in restaurants and factories. She shares her memories of the changes in the Danforth and the different Greekness of the second-generation Greeks.

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Date and Location
July 22, 2024
Toronto, ON
Interviewee(s)
Anonymous 4
Interviewer(s)
Effrosyni Rantou
Languages
Greek
Reference ID
GICREF098
Project
Greek Canadian Stories
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Categories
Culture and Tradition
Migration
Rites
Working Life
Tags
Cleaning Work
Funeral
Heirlooms Memorabilia
Marriage
Ocean Liner
Restaurant Work
Ship Jumpers
Decades Referenced
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
Locations Referenced
Florina; Toronto; Nea Epidauros;
Occupation(s)
Parents Occupation(s)
Names Referenced

[00:00:05] Her siblings’ and her own migration to Canada

[00:04:29] Meeting her husband and getting married

[00:15:14] Working in Toronto

[00:17:59] Proximity to the Church and community

[00:22:19] Visiting Greece and her impressions

[00:28:15] Her relationship with her siblings

[00:31:05] Living with her brothers when she arrived

[00:33:34] Her marriage

[00:36:35] Speaking Greek and not English

[00:37:49] Greece as homeland

[00:44:24] Macedonian idiom

[00:47:34] Working and making friends

[00:51:55] Jobs other Greeks worked

[00:53:42] Entertainment, Bloor and Danforth

[00:56:56] Second-generation Greeks

[01:00:32] Objects and photographs brought to Canada

[01:05:20] Her father’s passing and coping with death

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