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Cretans Association of Toronto
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We would like to personally welcome you to the "Cretans Association of Toronto" Website. and thank-you for visiting.

Perhaps there is no better medium today than the world wide web for sharing a thought, an idea and a culture to an audience that might be dispersed far and wide. We hope to develop this site into much more than just another social club website, but a celebration of our beautiful island of Crete and what it means to be Cretan.

-the Executive Committee

Homer mentions the great city of Knossos in the Odyssey. It was located on Crete, the largest of the Aegean islands. Because by legend King Minos ruled this city, the civilization is thus termed Minoan. Sir Arthur Evans discovered the buried remains of this palace and adjoining buildings in 1900 which at its height covered about six acres. This large multi-storied palace was organized around a central court, but the plan itself was complex, often called labyrinthine, in reference to the legendary Cretan labyrinth. The palace contained well-stocked magazines, royal apartments, shrines, a throne room, and service areas. Sir Evans excavated and reconstructed much of the site with some restorations in different materials (for example, the restored stone columns were originally wood).

In the following pages you can learn all about our Association and being Cretan in Toronto, Canada.