[VILLA CHARITIES NEWSLETTER FALL/WINTER 2010: Meet the project team]
UPDATE: Columbus Centre’s national project Italian Canadians as Enemy Aliens: Memories of World War II
With all the members of the project team on board, the project is moving forward in its initial stages of research, as well as creating public awareness of the project. Most recently, the public name for the project was changed from “Italian Canadians during World War II” to “Italian Canadians as Enemy Aliens:Memories of World War II.
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RECENT NEWS & EVENTS
- Exhibit Opening Sept. 19, 2014 - Windsor Community Museum
- POST-EVENT RELEASE - June 28, 2013: Columbus Centre unveils Riflessi: Italian Canadian Internment Memorial
- MEDIA ADVISORY: June 26 2013 - Columbus Centre of Toronto unveils Riflessi, an original commissioned
- INVITE: Monument unveiling of Riflessi: Italian Canadian Internment Memorial - JUNE 26 2013
- NEWS RELEASE: May 14, 2013 - Harley Valentine commissioned to build new monument, Riflessi
- VILLA CHARITIES NEWSLETTER SPRING 2013: Minister Kenney's celebration party for the Community Historical Recognition Program
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