Prof Errol Mendes is an outstanding personality in Ottawa. I found out about him a few years back while working on a genealogy project. A group of us, spearheaded by a young man from Bedford UK - Richard De Souza - had been mapping the family tree network of the Village of Moira (based on its 5 vangods/clans). Turned out that Errol (5th vangod of Moira) was related to some of our friends in the Toronto area. That's when I first heard about his impact in our national capital.
Incidentally, I should mention a thing that people are probably not aware about. The first Goan to be elected to a Provincial/Federal parliament in Canada was Professor Leonard Preyra. He was elected to the provincial legislature of Nova Scotia (2006) and became a Minister of Communities, Culture, and Heritage in the NDP government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Preyra#:~:text=Leonard%20Preyra%20(born%20February%2010,Assembly%20from%202006%20to%202013. (Just to be sure, I emailed him and confirmed that he is a Goan.) Cheers John -----Original Message----- From: Goanet [mailto:goanet-boun...@lists.goanet.org] On Behalf Of Frederick Noronha Sent: June 17, 2020 12:47 PM To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! <goanet@lists.goanet.org> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Mendes, Errol P. | Faculty of Law | University of Ottawa Moral of the story -- name your kid Errol? FN On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 21:44, Roland Francis <roland.fran...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here’s another distinguished Goan Errol - this one Mendes whose family > were from East Africa. > > My son who was in his Constitutional Law class says he was an > outstanding professor and the Govt of Canada would frequently consult > him on matters of Constitution and formulation of public policy. > > https://commonlaw.uottawa.ca/en/people/mendes-errol-p > > Roland. > Toronto. > > -- FN* फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 AUDIO: https://archive.org/details/goa1556 <https://archive.org/details/@fredericknoronha>