A $1.2 million gift to McGill University from leaders of Canada’s Greek community will strengthen Modern Greek research and scholarship at McGill and endow the University’s Phrixos B. Papachristidis Chair in Modern Greek and Greek-Canadian Studies in perpetuity.

The gift, which includes contributions from over 70 donors in Montreal and across Canada, will allow McGill, already Canada’s most international university, to expand the scope of its Greek studies programme. "We are grateful to the Greek-Canadian community for the generosity exemplified in this extraordinary gift," said Suzanne Fortier, McGill’s Principal and Vice-Chancellor. The Papachristidis Chair, which is housed within McGill’s Department of History and Classical Studies, was first established in 1988 by the Papachristidis family in honour of the late Montreal shipping industrialist.

See also: Embassy of Greece in Canada