José Henrique Neves nasceu em Aveiro a 28 Janeiro 1938. Chegou ao Canadá em 1964, passados 10 anos do primeiro grande fluxo imigratório de Portugal para este país. Em Toronto, a comunidade portuguesa vinha-se afirmando, através do aparecimento de alguns negócios, os primeiros jornais comunitarios, associações de apoio aos portugueses, e a abertura de filiais […]
No passado dia 6 de Dezembro, a Galeria dos Pioneiros abriu as portas ao Café e Cultura para uma importante palestra sobre documentação histórica e fontes. Intitulada Passados com Futuro: Notas sobre a preservação, estudo e divulgação da história de imigração no Canadá, por Gilberto Fernandes, Professor da Universidade York e diretor do Projeto de […]
Granny’s Christmas tree needs help. On Sunday, December, 17 you are invited to come to the Gallery of the Portuguese Pioneers, to learn how to make traditional decorations for Granny’s Christmas tree. Building on the memories of our parents and grandparents, children and teens will work with foils used for wrapping chocolates. PLAY, WATCH AND LEARN. For […]
Abílio Cipriano Marques was born in Pampilhosa da Serra (a town in Portugal, near the city of Coimbra) in 1929. His father passed when he was still a child, forcing him to take on a job as an agricultural servant at a very young age. At 14, he joined his mother in Lisbon, where she […]
Elvino Silveira Medina de Sousa was born in Graciosa Island in the Azores archipelago, on Decemeber 28, 1956. He immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1970 at 13 years old. An honour student since the beginning, Elvino completed a Bachelor and a Masters Degree at the University of Toronto, and obtained his Ph.D. from […]
