Welcoming Week
September 13-22, 2024
Every September, Huron County celebrates Welcoming Week.
Welcoming Week is an annual campaign and celebration to showcase the movement of communities striving to be more welcoming places for all, including immigrants.
Launched in 2021, Huron County’s Welcoming Week provides individuals and communities the opportunity to celebrate welcoming values through events and local initiatives that foster mutual understanding between immigrants and non-immigrants, as well as deeper belonging for all.
Welcoming Week is part of a global movement led by Welcoming America and supported by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. The Huron County Immigration Partnership is one of dozens of Immigration Partnerships across Canada that celebrate Welcoming Week.
If you would like to host a Welcoming Week event, please let us know and we can help you promote it. Email home@huroncounty.ca
Message from
Huron County Warden Glen McNeil
Ways to Welcome:
- Ask questions and listen to others.
- Diversify your news sources.
- Support a small business run by a newcomer.
- Attend a diversity workshop or a training on inter-cultural awareness.
- Bring a small gift of homemade food to the home of a newcomer and introduce yourself.
- Attend a cultural activity or event.
- Form a refugee sponsorship group.
- Be willing and interested in incorporating new things into your community to create a welcoming, all inclusive community for everyone!
2024 Welcoming Week Events
Meet your Neighbour
If you are newly retired, new parents, new to the town, new to Canada, or just want to learn more about your community, drop into the Huron County Library to meet your neighbour!
Join us at the following branches for these events:
- Brussels – Thursday, September 12, 7-8pm
- Wingham – Saturday, September 14, 2:30-4pm
- Clinton – Tuesday, September 17, 6:30-8pm
- Seaforth – Wednesday, September 18, 7-8pm
Cooking demonstration
In this Welcoming Week event, members of the Goderich Community Garden will learn how to use their produce to make tomato chutney and kale chips. The event will be led by Huron County Local Immigration Partnership co-chair and Goderich Community Garden member Pam Somers.
- Location: TBA, Goderich
- Date: Saturday, September 14, 2024
- Event time: 1-3pm
North Huron Job Fair
Join the North Huron Job Fair 2024 where employers, job seekers and service providers will connect. Job seekers will learn about diverse work opportunities in various sectors and meet area employers who are committed to helping people grow. Admission is free.
Location: Wingham Columbus Centre, 99 Kerr Dr., Wingham
Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Event time: 3-7pm
Film screening Ru and panel discussion
Based on the Governor General’s Award–winning novel by Kim Thúy, Ru is the story of the arduous journey of a wealthy family fleeing from Vietnam in 1975 after the fall of Saigon, then spending time at a refugee camp in Malaysia, before landing in Quebec.
The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion about local responses to the resettlement of refugees from Southeast Asia in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Event details:
- Location: Huron County Museum, 110 North Street, Goderich
- Date: Thursday, September 19, 2024
- Event time: 6:30-9:30pm
Introduction to lawn bowling
Interested in trying lawn bowling? Join the volunteers from the Exeter Lawn Bowling club who will be teaching people new to the sport how to play the game.
Location: Exeter Lawn Bowling Club, 298 Main St. S., Exeter, ON
Date: Saturday, September 21, 2024
Event time: 1:30pm
Share a Welcoming Week message!
Download our posts and use on your social media
Strike a pose! Catch us at a local festival and take a photo
Our Community is Diverse!
Newcomers stories are part of our fabric
Community Conversations
Conversations about Welcoming Communities with Gemma Mendez-Smith
Conversations about Welcoming Communities with Nev Ibrahim
Conversations about Valuing Diversity with John Grace and Leanne Kavanaugh
How Can We Help?
Huron County Immigration Partnership is always excited to support newcomers to Huron County. Let us know how we can help!
Find Us
57 Napier Street,
Goderich, ON
N7A 1W2
Canada
Phone
+1 (519) 524-8394 ext.6
