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Title: Cretan Association of Vancouver Preparing for the first Greek Day:
Contributor(s): Effie Karapidakis (Contributor)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1974-06-30
Description: Members of the Cretan Association of Vancouver ready for the Greek Day parade of the first ever Greek Day. Effie Karapidakis is the first woman from the left.
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Parades, Costume
Time Period: 1970s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Cretan Association Youth Group:
Contributor(s): Effie Karapidakis (Contributor)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1982-07-01
Description: Youth Group of the Cretan Association on the Vancouver Courthouse steps with the Association’s flag, July 1, 1982.
Subject(s): Youth, Flags, Greek Canadians
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1980s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: The Cross Dive - Interview with Fanni Ziakos:
Contributor(s): Ziakos, Fanni (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-05
Language: English
Description: For local Greek Canadians, the Cross Dive has re-emerged as a favourite annual rite for the community.
Extent: 00:01:19
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Cross Dive (Festival), Christianity, Greek Orthodox Church
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Cultural Differences - Interview with Vivian Beciaris:
Contributor(s): Beciaris, Vivian (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-05
Language: English
Description: Vivian Beciaris speaks about how her name was anglicized and bringing food she couldn't eat to the school Christmas party.
Extent: 00:00:52
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Parties, Children of immigrants - Education
Location(s): Oakridge
Time Period: 1970s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Demiris' 25th Anniversary:
Contributor(s): Susie Demiris Miceli (Contributor)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1983
Description: Andre and Georgia Demiris celebrate their 25th Anniversary at Vassilis Taverna.
Subject(s): Parties, Greek Canadians, Anniversaries
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1980s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Dinner Dances - Interview with Eleni Dedegikas
Contributor(s): Dedegikas, Eleni (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2017-02-01
Language: Greek
Description: Eleni talks about the Greek businesses in the Kitsilano neighbourhood and the dinner dances that took place at that time.
Extent: 00:03:19
Subject(s): Dance, Immigrants - Experience, Restaurants, Grocery trade, Greek Canadians
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Family Bakery - Interview with Anna-Maria Kapetanakis:
Contributor(s): Kapetanakis, Anna-Maria (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-01-26
Language: English
Description: Anna-Maria Kapetanakis tells the story of her family's arrival to Vancouver from Greece and the bakery they ran in order to survive in the 1970s.
Extent: 00:03:17
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Immigrants - Experience, Family-owned business enterprises, Pastry - Filo, Bakeries, Small business
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1970s, 1980s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: The Family Business - Interview with Nikki Roussanidis:
Contributor(s): Roussanidis, Nikki (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-01
Language: English
Description: Leo Balatsas ran his downtown service station for decades. His daughter, Nikki Roussanidis, worked there as a teen, and remembers it as a thriving small business and a lively hangout for Greek immigrants.
Extent: 00:01:15
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, Immigrants - Employment, Teenagers, Service stations, Greek Canadians, Family-owned business enterprises
Location(s): Mount Pleasant
Time Period: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: The Family Restaurant - Interview with Georgia Demiris, Bill Demiris, and Susie Demiris Miceli:
Contributor(s): Demiris, Georgia (Interviewee), Demiris, Bill (Interviewee), Miceli, Suse Demiris (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-01
Language: English
Description: The Demiris family talk about the family's restaurant, Vassilis Taverna in the heart of Vancouver's Greek community.
Extent: 00:03:06
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Restaurants, Vassilis Taverna (Restaurant), Family-owned business enterprises
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1970s, 1980s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Father Demetrios Partsafas and Family:
Contributor(s): Maria Camara (Contributor)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1975
Description: Father Demetrios Partsafas with Presvytera Irini, oldest child, Socrates and twin girls, Maria Camara and Stella Kasidoulis. Father Partsafas and his young family came to Vancouver in 1974. This was taken in Vancouver near their home at West 20th and Oak Street.
Subject(s): Clergy, Greek Canadians, Family
Location(s): South Cambie
Time Period: 1970s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Finding Home - Interview with Gabriella Exarchoulis
Contributor(s): Exarchoulis, Gabriella (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-01
Language: English
Description: As a newcomer to Canada, Gabriella Exarchoulis was comforted to find herself among other Greek Canadians in the West End, and later in Kitsilano and Arbutus Ridge.
Extent: 00:02:27
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Immigrants - Experience, Parthenon Market
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Finding Language and Community - Interview with Gabriella Exarchoulis
Contributor(s): Exarchoulis, Gabriella (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-01
Language: English
Description: Gabriella Exarchoulis speaks about going to the Parthenon Market for Greek foodstuffs, to Nelson Park to talk to other Greek immigrants, and the picnics at Peace Arch Park.
Extent: 0:01:58
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Immigrants - Experience, Parthenon Market, Greek Day (Festival)
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: The First Female President - Interview with Roula Liaskas:
Contributor(s): Liaskas, Roula (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-01-26
Language: English
Description: Roula became a member of the board and eventually president of the Macedonian Association.
Extent: 00:01:54
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Women - Societies and clubs, Immigrants - Experience, Northern Greece and Macedonian Society (Vancouver, B.C.), Pharos (The Canadian-Hellenic Cultural Society)
Location(s): Arbutus-Ridge
Time Period: 1970s, 1980s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Fundraising - Interview with Evelyn Economos:
Contributor(s): Economos, Evelyn (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-05
Language: English
Description: Evelyn Economos speaks about fundraising for the Hellenic Community Centre as a youth.
Extent: 00:00:55
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Teenagers, Volunteers
Location(s): Arbutus-Ridge
Time Period: 1970s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Generations - Interview with Constantinos Economos
Contributor(s): Economos, Constantinos (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-05
Language: English
Description: Constantinos Economos, Priest at St. George's Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Arbutus Ridge, describes the character of the different generations of Greek Canadians in Vancouver and speculates about the future of the church and the culture.
Extent: 00:03:11
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, St. George's Greek Orthodox Cathedral (Arbutus Street), Immigrants - Experience, Children of immigrants
Location(s): Arbutus-Ridge
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: George and Tony Capadouca with Skate Fish
Contributor(s): Peter Capadouca (Contributor)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1961
Description: George Capadouca (left) and Tony Capadouca fishing on the boat Silver Bear used as a Beam Troller (Dragger) in the Gulf Islands and Georgia Strait to catch sole, cod, rock fish, crab, etc. The fish in the picture are two skates, a large species of ray (Batoids).
Subject(s): Fishing boats, Fishers, Fishing, Greek Canadians
Time Period: 1960s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Golfo Play:
Contributor(s): Michael, Paul (Contributor)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1933
Description: Play put on by the young people of the 1930s in the old St. George's Church at 7th & Vine.
Subject(s): Golfo (Play), Greek Canadians, Actors
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1930s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Greek Dances - Interview with Helen Nicolidakis Soulsbury, Nikki Roussanidis and Sophia Karasouli-Milobar:
Contributor(s): Nicolidakis Soulsbury, Helen (Interviewee), Roussanidis, Nikki (Interviewee), Karasouli-Milobar, Sophia (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-01
Language: English
Description: Nikki Roussanidis speaks about selling tickets to the various Greek association balls and dances at Nikki's father's gas station, as well as attending many such events over the years as a child.
Extent: 00:03:16
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Folk dancing, Greek, Family, Creative community
Location(s): Arbutus-Ridge
Time Period: 1970s, 1980s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Greek Dancing - Interview with Konstantin Nikolaou:
Contributor(s): Nikolaou, Konstantin (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-05
Language: English
Description: Konstantin Nikolaou speaks about the importance of Greek dancing in community cohesion.
Extent: 00:02:15
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Folk dancing, Greek, Creative community
Location(s): Renfrew-Collingwood
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Greek Day:
Contributor(s): Susie Demiris Miceli (Contributor)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1974-1975
Description: The Messinian Brotherhood in the Greek Day parade on Broadway.
Subject(s): Parades, Greek Canadians, Greek Day (Festival)
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1970s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

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