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The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association
(AHEPA) is one of the largest Hellenic heritage groups in the world and is a major community service organization in North America. Included in the AHEPA Family is the women's group, Daughters of Penelope; the Sons of Pericles (the junior order of
AHEPA); and the Maids of Athena (the junior order of the Daughters of Penelope). While founded in the United States in 1922, the AHEPA organization has branched out to include chapters throughout Canada, Greece, Cyprus, New Zealand and Australia.
Canada's first chapter was established in Toronto, Ontario in 1928. Chapters then flourished to include involvement of chapters in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia.
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The AHEPA Family in Canada raise funds for the victims of fires in Greece to Plant Olive Trees
In six hot, windy days of uncontrolled blazes, Greece lost a significant part of its dwindling forest land. The massive fires have killed more than 70 people and gutted hundreds of homes in scores of southern villages.
The inferno also destroyed fragile mountain ecosystems - that will require decades to revive - and an entire rural way of life, threatening to turn thousands of villagers into environmental refugees. We must help them stay on their land and recover their
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The AHEPA Family Charitable Foundation in Canada is pleased to announce its 2008 Journey to Greece Recipient
 The AHEPA Family Charitable Foundation of Canada is pleased to announce that the 2008 recipient of this scholarship is Peter
Papapetrou. Peter is a student at TheUniversity of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario. The Journey to Greece Scholarship was established in 2006 to financially support students of Hellenic Heritage or relatives of AHEPA Family members across Canada
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Prime Minister Harper Marks the Occasion of Greece's Independence Day
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Steven Harper issued the following greeting to mark Greece's Independence
Day:
"I am pleased to extend my heartfelt greetings to all Canadians of Hellenic origin on this historic day. In honouring the anniversary of Greek Independence Day, March 25, 1821, we are celebrating democracy, a Greek lecacy and the heartbeat of our nation.
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