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From Baba's Hope Chest Macedonian Treasures in Canada FROM BABA'S HOPE CHEST: Macedonian Treasures in Canada was an exhibition of traditional Macedonian clothing and textiles presented in collaboration with THE MUSEUM FOR TEXTILES and CMHS member ...

Aspassia Bossota-Patsy Sider was born in the city of Florina-Lerin on April 10th of 1943, the fifth child of the six children of Avraam and Konstantina Bossota (five daughters and a son.) Her education was Grade Twelve. ln 1962 her and her family, for political reasons, they decided to immigrate to Canada. In Canada, she met Angelo Sider-Evangelos Sideropoulos from Florina- Lerin, and they got married in 1964. The ...

My memory goes back To those years that I had no speech. I loved the Macedonian songs. The unmerciful Greeks forbade our culture. Why, why, they took away The customs which belonged to us? Why, why, they took away The language and the scripts which belonged to us? Discrimination is a mortal disease. It poison's the mind and the soul. We search for human rights We obey the Holy Word. Rise, O, Macedonian children To ...

Christmas Day is a Saint Day Where the justice and the kindness conquers. This day commemorated the birth of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the savior of the World, the Miraculous. Mother, you are a praiseworthy mother and a grandmother. You raised six children and five grandchildren. You faced the difficulties in life with bravery And you conquer them all. This poem is for you, mother With all my love and ...

The Canadian citizens, from Florina, who live in the free world of Canada The times when they visit my birthplace, the city of Florina-Lerin To my relatives and my acquaintances, for me personally, they say the following. "Shame on her, she hates the Greeks, she speaks the Macedonian language And she goes to Macedonian Church..." My heritage is Macedonian I do not see any shame to that The Macedonian language is one ...

It was painted on my father's face, the joy and the fear The times when he held the radio close to his ear. He was hearing Macedonian songs Prohibited by the Greeks, the Macedonian songs. The volume of the radio was too low Any lower could not go. He wondered, if the Greek policeman was outside of his home Hidden under the window, or the porch, for eavesdropping. Mother was shaking as a leaf. She was whispering to ...