Today, we pause to honour Survivors, their families, and the children who never returned. Canada Ireland Foundation’s mission is to connect the peoples of Ireland and Canada through history, art, and culture. We recognize that the Irish, while often themselves displaced, also came here as settlers. Acknowledging this complicated history is a necessary step in […]

The Canada Ireland Foundation today announced that its Founder, Robert G. Kearns, has retired from his position as Chair of the Foundation’s Board of Directors and as a member of the Board. Mark Purdy, a Founding Director and long-standing Board member, has been elected by the Board to serve as the new Chair. 1n 1997, […]

The transformation of Toronto’s waterfront from an industrial hub to a livable community has taken decades of planning and construction. Most traces of the heavy industries that once lined the lakefront have long been erased, with only a few monuments left that remind us of Toronto’s origins as a port city. Of the remaining structures, […]