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Map of Lithuanian heritage in New England
Map of the Lithuanian heritage in New England (Connectictut, Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire) and Quebec. More info on Lithuanian heritage in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New...
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Map of Lithuanian heritage in Mid-Atlantic
Map of the Lithuanian heritage in Mid-Atlantic (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, DC) and western Ontario. More info on Lithuanian heritage in Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania,...
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Map of Lithuanian heritage in eastern Midwest
Map of the Lithuanian heritage in eastern Midwest (Michigan, Ohio) and western Ontario. More info on Lithuanian heritage in Ohio, Michigan, Ontario.
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Alberta (Canada)
The Lithuanian Home in Alberta's capital city Edmonton (83 Street Northwest) is a small building in a district of single-floored single-family homes. This was the maximum what a small local Lithuanian...
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Montreal, Quebec
Canada's second largest city Montreal attracted many Lithuanian refugees after World War 2. They have constructed patriotically-named churches that remain community hubs even today, making Montreal the...
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Small town Ontario
In addition to Toronto after World War 2 Lithuanians also moved to small Ontario towns. Multiple such town have Lithuanian churches dating to ~1950s: somewhat modern, somewhat old in style appropriate...
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Toronto, Ontario
Toronto has multpile large patriotically named Lithuanian hubs established by post-WW2 Lithuanian refugees. Fleeing the Soviet occupation they saw themselves as deportees rather than migrants and...
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History of the Lithuanian community in Canada is like a scaled-down version of the Lithuanian Americans history (today there are 47 000 Lithuanian Canadians). It also began later. The first Lithuanians...
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Windsor, Ontario
Windsor city is separated by just a river from Detroit, Michigan. Its sole Lithuanian site was St. Casimir Lithuanian church of Windsor. It does not look like a church at all – it operated in a rather...
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London, Ontario
London is the only city in Canada that once had rather significant Lithuanian heritage but now has no Lithuanian sites at all. London Our Lady of Šiluva was the last Lithuanian parish to be established...
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Ottawa, Ontario
The Canadian capital of Ottawa has no historically large Lithuanian community. While there was Lithuanian mass, there was never a Lithuanian church here. The first Lithuanian site within the city...
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Romuva and northern Ontario
Nearly all Lithuanian-Canadian heritage is concentrated in the short strip of Ontario and Quebec close to the US border, where the main cities are. As time passed, however, urban Lithuanians often...
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St. Catharines, Ontario
St. Catharines Lithuanian community was small yet it created one of the most Lithuanian-looking churches of Canada. While no longer used by Lithuanians, the church still has a Memorial to Lithuania on...
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Delhi, Ontario
Delhi is a traditional region of tobacco growing. It is unique in Lithuanian America, as it is one of merely two areas where Lithuanians in North America typically worked in farms rather than in...
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Wasaga Beach, Ontario
To Lithuanians, Wasaga Beach is the „Palanga of Canada“. This no little feat since Palanga is the largest resort of Lithuania and one of the largest on the Baltic Sea. Lithuanians who moved to Canada...
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Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is the third largest Lithuanian center in Canada after Toronto and Montreal. It has very diverse Lithuanian heritage: church, youth center, senior apartments, credit union and hunter‘s club,...
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Vancouver, British Columbia
While currently, the Vancouver Lithuanian community is among the largest in Canada, it did not build its own Lithuanian church or Lithuanian home, or any monuments. The community increased slowly over...
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Nova Scotia
For centuries, Nova Scotia served as an entrance to Canada, and it has been used by Lithuanians as such. Halifax, the port of entry of Lithuanian-Candians Between 1928 and 1971, the main entry port was...
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