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Canada, you are indeed a land of multi-cultural Immigrants Many people heard your call and they came Macedonians leave their beloved homeland Your promise of hope and freedom they come to claim. You invite them, come people from Aegean, Pirrin, Vardar Come; join other new life seeking peoples Leave Macedonia, as children will one day leave home Come; build families, homes, businesses, Churches with steeples. You counsel them, embrace me and I will embrace you Nothing will be given to ...

Canada, you are indeed a land of multi-cultural Immigrants Many people heard your call and they came Macedonians leave their beloved homeland Your promise of hope and freedom they come to claim. You invite them, come people from Aegean, Pirrin, Vardar Come; join other new life seeking peoples Leave Macedonia, as children will one day leave home Come; build families, homes, businesses, Churches with steeples. You counsel them, embrace me and I will embrace you Nothing will be given to ...

Lambo Anastasoff Tenekeff was born in 1895 in the village of Gabresh,Macedonia. He immigrated to Canada with his father Anastas Kizoff in 1907. He worked as a butcher and three years later opened his own grocery/butcher store and named it Louis Meat Market. In the established Canadian community he became known as Mr. Louis.

In 1919 he sent for his fiancee Kiratza Zolumoff. They were married in 1921 and over a period of eleven years had four children (Mary, Chris, Victoria, Tsana).

In the Macedonian community the Anastasoffs were known as the Tenekeff family. Tenekeff was a nickname Lanbo's father acquired while growing up in the village of Gabresh Macedonia. In Canada and the USA Lambo was widely regarded as a leader in the Macedonian community.

70 Years in Exile: Macedonian Child Refugees of the Greak Civil War On Saturday November 9th, 2019, the Canadian Macedonian Historical Society honoured the plight of the Macedonian Refugee Children of the Greek Civil War at the City of Toronto Arc...

Transgenerational Trauma and Resiliance On Sunday September 29th, 2019 over 50 people gathered as part of the 70th Anniversary of the end of the Greek Civil War. The lecture was organized by the Macedonian Canadian Health Professionals Association...