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ONTARIO, September 18, 2018 — Born on August 31, 1963, Eunice Quash-Branch, daughter of the late Alphonso and Daisy Quash, “went to be with her God”, on September 11, at the age of 55, after a lengthy fight with cancer. ...

ANTIGONISH, Nova Scotia, September 14, 2018 — A memorial service for Dr. Agnes Miranda Calliste, 74, of Antigonish — a town in Antigonish County in Nova Scotia — was held at the St. Francis Xavier University Chapel, last Saturday, September ...

By Michael Van Cooten PRIDE Publisher/Editor TORONTO, Ontario — Since as early as the eighteenth century, Black Canadian women have achieved tremendous successes and accomplishments in many fields, giving Canada its unique identity. From Marie-Joseph Angélique in the early 1700’s; ...

TORONTO, Ontario September 6, 2018 — Densley Mitchell Sylvan, 73, on Sunday, August 19, at 1:45pm, passed away at the Michael Garron Hospital, formerly Toronto East General Hospital, in Toronto. Born in Snell Hall and Madeys in Sauteurs, Grenada on ...

ONTARIO, September 6, 2018 — Born in Mount Morritz, Grenada, Milton Griffith died, peacefully, on Thursday, August 23. Predeceased by Cynthia Griffith (nee Ricketts), his loving wife of 55 years, he was father of Jacqueline Silvera (husband, Andrew); Jennifer Baur ...

TORONTO, Ontario September 6, 2018 — A memorial service — organised and hosted by Grenada’s consulate office in Toronto — will be held, on Sunday, for the late Leonard Wharwood, Jr., the country’s former Honorary Consul in Montreal. Wharwood, who ...

ROSEAU, Dominica, September 5, 2018 (CMC) – Canada said, today, it would provide nearly 20 million dollars to fund development projects in hurricane-battered Dominica. Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Development of Canada, Kamal Khera, said that Ottawa is ...

Magdalene Adelaide Blair (nee Jessemy), fondly known as Madge, passed away on Saturday, August 25, 2018 at the Seventh Day Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park, Maryland, after a lengthy illness. Madge was born in 1947 in Alberttown, Guyana, and raised ...

Michael Van Cooten PRIDE Publisher/Editor TORONTO, Ontario — Amidst the kaleidoscopic pageantry; reverberating, pulsating soca and reggae rhythms; and gyrating waistlines of the recent Toronto Caribbean Carnival season, 160 patrons attended a comparatively subdued, but no less enjoyable and, from ...

By Michael Van Cooten PRIDE Publisher/Editor TORONTO, Ontario August 24, 2018 (PRIDE) — When news broke that Dr. Bromley L. Armstrong had died, floodgates couldn’t constrain the tsunami of tributes and praise that poured in, for one of Canada’s most ...