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Emigration
Villagers who left for America, Canada and Australia, and sometimes came back.
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1890–1944
Born in Kalamaki, buried in America
Find a Grave lists four people born in "Kalamaki, Argolis" between about 1890 and 1944 who died in New Jersey, California, Ohio and Texas. One of them was naturalised and served in the US Army in 1942–1943. The…
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1902
Zacharia Mila, the first known emigrant, goes to Chicago
Zacharia Mila from Kalamaki leaves for Chicago in 1902, which makes him the earliest emigrant from Myloi and Kalamaki we know of. He works there until 1906 and then returns to his wife Marigo in Kalamaki. We know this…
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1906
Andes Candies: a founder from Myloi or from Achladokampos?
In 1934 the New York Greek daily Ethnikos Kiryx wrote that Andreas G. Kanelos (Kanellopoulos), founder of the Andes Candies shops in Chicago, "comes from Myloi of Argos" and arrived in America in 1906 at the age of…
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1909–1914
Young men from "Myli" and "Mylous" on the Ellis Island lists
A search of about 10,300 Ellis Island records found some twenty Greek travellers who gave Myli, Mylous or Milon as home, most between 1909 and 1914. They were mostly single men of 17 to 27, sailing from Patras or Piraeus…
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24 April 1911
On the Patris to Chicago: Mila and Stavros Kouvalis
Zacharia Mila (38) and fifteen-year-old Stavros Kouvalis sailed from Piraeus on 4 April 1911 on the Patris, the first Greek liner to New York, and arrived twenty days later. Both were going to Angelos Kouvalis, Stavros's…
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9 July 1912
The first trace of an emigrant in Canada
A judgment of the Athens court of first instance names, among the debtors of an ice company, a resident of Myloi "living in Canada". It is the earliest known link between Myloi and Canada, more than fifty years before…
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31 August 1912
Zachos Antoniou goes to the mills of Lowell
Zachos Antoniou from Myloi, a 23-year-old farmer and son of Costas, left Patras on 19 August 1912 in steerage on the brand-new Kaiser Franz Josef I and reached New York twelve days later. He was going to a cousin in…
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16 June 1914
Zachos Antoniou again, now to his brother in Eureka
By 1914 Zachos Antoniou was back in Myloi, perhaps because of the Balkan Wars. On 26 May 1914 he left Patras again on the Pannonia and arrived in New York on 16 June, heading for his brother George Antoniou in Eureka,…
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1922–1961
A quiet line from Myloi to Chicago
Apart from Mila and the Kouvalis brothers, other threads lead from Myloi to Chicago. In 1922 a man in Chicago sent greetings in a New York Greek paper on the wedding of a bride "from Myloi of Argos", and in 1961 the…
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March 1927 – April 1927
The priest of Myloi dies, and America hears of it
A letter "from Argos, 3 April 1927", written for the people of Argos in America, reports the sudden death of the priest Christos Nikolaou Giannakopoulos "from the village of Myloi of Lerna". All the people of Myloi,…
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1956
Loukas Kouvaras sets off round the world
Loukas Kouvaras, born in Myloi in 1931, studied mechanical engineering at the University of Houston. From 1956 to 1988 he worked for multinationals in Houston, New York, London, Brussels, Geneva, New Delhi, Bombay, Hong…
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31 July 1959
New York's Greek paper reports the honour
On 31 July 1959 the Greek-American daily Εθνικός Κήρυξ in New York reported, in its provincial news, that Caskey had been made an honorary citizen of Myloi. The news from the village thus reached emigrants in America.
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1967
Dimosthenis Ganas leaves for Winnipeg
Dimosthenis Ganas, born in Myloi in 1945, followed his brothers Nick and Ted to Canada at the age of 22. In Winnipeg, Manitoba, he became "Jim" and later joint owner of Nick's Inn, a roadside diner in Headingley.
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10 January 2009
The bell from Winnipeg rings all day
Jim Ganas had given a church bell to the church of the Twelve Apostles in Myloi. When the news came that he had died in Headingley, Canada, on 10 January 2009, the bell was rung all through the day.
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9 March 2012
During the crisis, the young come back
In the middle of the Greek debt crisis two young farmers of Myloi told a local paper that most friends who had left Myloi to seek their luck in a big city had almost all come back. Leaving for the city, and returning,…