Canada Day Festival @ Downsview Park

Corporated Militia of Upper Canada, representing the Red Coated Canadian in their reenactment of various drills from The War of 1812.





Pan Fantasy played the Canadian national anthem at the opening ceremonies.

The Royal Canadian Legion Highland Creek Annual Canada Day Parade.











MP Dan McTeague spoke at the Canada Day closing ceremonies, at Canadian Legion Br. 258.

Guyana Festival at L'Amoreaux Community Centre


(above) Guyanese performer/dancer, Mumtazi Ali performed at the cultural show.


Master drummer from Guinea-Conakry, Amara Kante Koteba and Master drummer from Trinidad & Tobago, Muhtadi play an encore for Fameeda Singh, wife of the Canadian ambassador to Guyana.

The Battle of Black Creek @ Black Creek Pioneer Village

A Corporal of The Queens Rangers, teaches a private how to fire a musket. The Queens Rangers fought along side the Loyalists during the American Revolution.

Continental soldiers stand guard as arrests are attempted on Loyalist supporters. The mob eventually scared off the Continental soldiers and no arrests were made.

Hungarian Festival


The Kodaly Dance Ensemble performed traditional Hungarian folk song and dance at the Hungarian Canadian Cultural Centre's Magyar Festival, celebrating Hungarian history, tradition, culture, food and music.

2009 Portugal Day Parade

The 2009 Saul Hayes Human Rights Award



Prime Minister Stephen Harper received The Saul Hayes Human Rights Award from the Canadian Jewish Congress at the Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue during the 29th Plenary Assembly. Harper is the first ever Prime Minister to receive the award. The CJC celebrated its 90th anniversary in conjunction with the event.

Community Garden


North York - Opening planting of the community garden located beside the historical John McKenzie House. The community garden, and planting was made possible by local area constituents, the Historical Society, the City, counsellor John Fillion and the Clean and Beautiful City program.

Toronto Jewish Film Festival screening of "It All Begins at Sea"


NORTH YORK - Canadian Friends of Tel Aviv University, Toronto Jewish Film Festival @ Cineplex Odeon Grande at Sheppard. Screening of award winning filmmaker Eitan Green's film, "It All Begins at Sea" with guests Eitan Green and Atom Egoyan. Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan spoke to the audience inside the theatre before the screening of "It All Begins at Sea"

Greek Easter on the Danforth



EAST YORK - St Irene Chrisovalantou Greek Orthodox Church Easter celebrations.

Bengali New Year


Bengali New Years celebration at Crescent Town Community Centre.

Diaspora Dialogues Performance Series

Workshop mentor and spoken word artist Anne-Marie Woods (Amani) performed for the audience.

Performing Diaspora 2009 @ Yorkgate Mall





York University Students perform West African drumming and dance at Yorkgate Mall, as part of "Performing Diaspora 2009: Celebrating Black History Month Through Dance and Music". The performance had two special guests Djembe drum master Billy Nankouma Konaté from Guinea and dancer-choreographer Sani Abu from Nigeria.
February 27th, 2009

Open House at the Toronto Aerospace Museum at Downsview Park on the 2nd annual Family Day.

Our Precious Heritage: A Celebration of Sephardi Culture



"Our Precious Heritage: A Celebration of Sephardi Culture" opened at Baycrest's Morris and Sally Justein Heritage Museum. The exhibit features judaica of Sephardi culture, collected from countries such as Morocco, Tunisia, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Syria, Uzbekistan and India.