Giorgos Zoumboulakis was born in 1938 in Sykia, Laconia, and grew up during the hardships of wartime Greece, shaped by the stories of relatives who had emigrated to the United States. At the age of 13, he moved to Athens, where he worked various jobs before eventually becoming director of the Athens Golf Club House. Always energetic and seeking new adventures, he went to sea on an Onassis tanker and twice jumped ship in the United States in search of opportunity, before being detained in Brownsville, Texas, and deported back to Greece. In 1959, he entered a correspondence marriage and immigrated to Toronto, where he became an active member of the Greek community, participating in the Orfeas Choir.
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[00:02:20] Arriving in Toronto and the Greeks of the city
[00:04:46] Joining the Orpheus Choir
[00:10:00] Orpheus Choir in the 1976 Olympic Games
[00:15:45] Creating the Sykia Association
[00:17:25] Joining the GCT and Panagiotakis’ visit
[00:22:10] Labelled a communist and GCT during the Junta
[00:28:40] Airing a sound clip from the Polytechnic in CBC
[00:31:55] Attending Papandreou’s speeches
[00:34:24] The group of 19 and serving as a GCT treasurer
[00:56:51] Participating in the Immigration Refugee Board
[01:06:15] Cases he remembers from the IRB
[01:19:07] Owning restaurants
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