Fifi Mylopoulou was born in the 1940s in Thessaloniki but soon moved to Athens. She shares memories from the 1940s, reflects on her university studies and her eventual decision to pursue further education in Canada. After migrating to Toronto, she began working in the Greek Schools of the Greek Community of Toronto and earned a degree from the University of Western Ontario. She found a job as a reference librarian at the Scarborough Public Library, focusing on multicultural library services, curating both Greek and other ethnic collections. She also taught courses on public library services for multicultural communities at the University of Toronto. She shares stories about meeting her husband, their marriage, and her commitment to ensuring her children learned Greek.
[00:00:25]Her family history and her father’s occupation
[00:05:11]Moving to Athens and her childhood games
[00:10:54] Μemories from the 1940s
[00:20:17]Studying philology and her mother’s death
[00:27:03]The turbulent 1960s and Gagarin’s visit
[00:31:55]Greek Dictatorship and her father’s migration
[00:36:35] Her migration to Toronto to study
[00:42:40]Her impression of Toronto and studying at UWO
[00:46:54]Working in the Greek Schools of the GCT
[00:48:49]Finding a job in the Scarborough Public Library
[00:53:49] Multicultural library services & teaching at UofT
[01:07:06] Greek Educational Association
[01:10:28] The response of the GCT to the library's efforts
[01:13:14] Funding of the library
[01:17:23] Visiting Greece
[01:19:07] The Dictatorship in Toronto and Karamanlis' visit
[01:23:17] Meeting her husband and her marriage
[01:26:30] Providing Greek education to her children
[01:29:44] Commenting on her descision to migrate
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