Mississauga: The Goan Archives Project organised an Open House for people to donate any printed material relating to their own presence in Canada or elsewhere.
The project was initiated by Cecil D`Cruz to collect printed materials such as books, documents, articles and personal career data from Canadian Goans. The aim is to catalogue the collection and then handed it over to a suitable library.
 A steering committee, with Cecil D`Cruz, Claude Gomes, John D`Souza, Uvy Lopes and Lazarus Pereira, has been formed to work on the project.
Cecil mentioned that ever since the project was announced and posted on many Goan websites, he has received numerous equiries from individuals from many parts of the world if they could contribute to the project or if the committee wants to have similar ones in countries where the Goans have a sizeable population.
Cecil said that because of limited resources, it was impossible to handle the requests at this stage.