Pioneers: Paying Tribute With A Book

By Devin Meireles My name is Devin Meireles and I am proud to embrace heritage and share this Portuguese thing of ours with my book!...

Our Pioneers – We Owe it to Them

The adventure undertaken by our pioneers did not start the moment they waved farewell to their families, neither the instant they boarded a boat filled...

The three lives of Jornal da Aliança

Jornal da Aliança was given three lives but, unfortunately, survived none. The newspaper was published in spurts over three distinct decades, but each time succumbed...

Kensington Market – the Genesis

My personal encounter mirrored, in a much smaller scale, many others throughout the first forty odd years of the Portuguese presence in Canada. The area...

Homesickness is a bummer

I feel a deep longing. I really do. Seriously, I do. I miss hearing Portuguese spoken correctly. I miss knowing the potholes on the streets,...