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MEETINGS:
Sunday, June 17, 2012, 2:00 p.m.: NOTE NEW DATE AND LOCATION: TCA Meeting at the Kingsway Retirement Residence, 6th Floor, Hospitality area, 4251 Dundas Street West. "Goodbye, Mrs. Richards. If John can't go I won't go either" - a story of Cornish ancestors and the Titanic tragedy. Presented by Richard Bond.
Friday, July 27, 2012, 11:00 a.m.: NOTE CHANGE OF DATE: "Rodda Creamery of Redruth - a Family History", presented by Phillip Rodda at the home of Pauline Duinker, 266 Donnelly Drive, Mississauga, Ontario. "Afternoon Tea: the Cornish Way" originally planned by Jacqueline Tucker and Nancy Dale, will be re-scheduled.
Saturday, August 11, 2012, 12:00 noon - TCA Annual Picnic at the home of Ruth & Frank Pellow, 6566 Panton St., Kilbride, ON
Saturday, September 15, 2012, 2:00 p.m. - Venue to be confirmed - "The Cornish of Old Durham County: The Religious Traditions and Trades They Brought to Durham", presented by Sher Leetooze
Saturday, October 20, 2012, 2:00 p.m. - in the recreation room at 33 Empress Ave., North York, ON, The Bal Maidens, a presentation by Glenda Cook, Marilyn Sellenkowitsch, Daphne Blunden.
The Toronto Cornish Association is a Canadian group whose members research and share enthusiasm for the culture of Cornwall, UK.
Cornwall is the most southwesterly county in Britain, and was once its own Celtic nation (it is often still referred to as "the Duchy"). It has its own language (Kernewek), unique cultural traditions, music, inventors, folktales and history. The main industries in Cornwall until modern times were fishing and mining... when those industries collapsed in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Cornish emigrants left their homeland and settled all over the world. People of Cornish heritage may be commonly found wherever mining or fishing communities needed expert workers: the gold rush towns of California, the deep mines in South Australia and Mexico, the fishing industries of Newfoundland, and other locations across the world. The primary local industry in Cornwall is now tourism, with emphasis on the county's stretches of beautiful coastline.
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