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European Heritage Week Kicks Off 2010 Campaign

The European Heritage Week celebration committee has begun its campaign to request cities and municipalities in North America to declare EHW in their communities. The first five municipalities for this year are:

Grand Bank, Newfoundland: Mayor, Daniel Lafosse.
This is one of Canada's best known municipalities, incorporated in 1943

and with a population of over 2,000

Grand Bank, Newfoundland Website: http://www.townofgrandbank.com/

Dorchester New Brunswick: Mayor, Melvin Goodland
Another historical Maritime community, Dorchester, is home to

the world's largest Sandpiper Festival

Dorchester, New Brunswick Website: http://www.dorchester.ca/

Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia: Mayor, Phil Roberts
This community is a magnet for arts and culture, its centerpieces

being ArtsPlace and King's Theatre

Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia Website: http://www.annapolisroyal.com/

Saugeen Shores, Ontario: Lawrence Allison, Chief Administration Officer;

Saugeen Shores boasts a thriving tourism industry

Suageen Shores Ontario Website: http://www.saugeenshores.ca/

Kincardine Ontario: Mayor Larry Kraemer
Kincardine is located on the Bruce Peninsula near Lake Huron

and features boutiques, a boardwalk and great sunsets

Kincardine Ontario Website: http://www.kincardine.net/community.cfm

We will be adding more towns to this list, so keep checking

 

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Art Festival in Edinburgh

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Forwarded to the Premier of the Province of Alberta:

 

Mr. Premier:

The European Heritage Coordinating Committee writes to you with regard to the unfair and ugly decision by Raymond High School in Raymond, Alberta to forbid a student of Scottish descent from wearing a kilt to his high school graduation.

Diversity, to be fair, is it is to be practiced by government institutions, must be applied to those of all ethnic groups. We hope that you will be speaking to the school board governing Raymond on this ugly incident and decision and offer an apology to the student involved. Mr. Hamish Jacobs.

We also formally ask you to declare European Heritage Week in the province of Alberta from October 11-17 and in perpetuity every year to begin each Canadian Thanksgiving Monday (you may obtain more details at www.natparty,com/heritage.htm . )

Thanking you for your attention,

Bob Smith
European Heritage Week
Coordinating Committee
Toronto ON

May 25, 2010

 

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We salute the City of Cranrook BC, who on Monday July 14 declared European Heritage Week with the following letter:

 

Good afternoon Mr. Smith,

Council, at its regular meeting of July 14, 2008 proclaimed theweek of October 13 19, 2008 to be European Heritage Week in Cranbrook.

A copy of the proclamation is attached.

Bernice Reed
Executive Assistant
Office of the Mayor
City of Cranbrook
 

Congratulations, Cranbrook!

 

Created in 1994 by Don Andrews, this special celebration was originated to commemorate the contribution of European culture and history to Canada's multi-ethnic mosaic.

From 1994 this special week has been celebrated each year beginning on the observance of Canadian Thanksgiving. In its first seven years, cities across Canada have officially proclaimed it. These cities include Victoria BC, Charlottetown PEI, Hamilton Ontario, London Ontario, and Peterborough Ontario.

The reach of "European Heritage Week" is international. In 1994 Queen Elizabeth II gave approval to the concept of celebrating the contribution of European culture and history in a letter to the Celebration Committee. In 1999 the California State Legislature officially proclaimed October as California's "European Heritage Month".

 

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