A 13-minute documentary about daily life at the Georgetown Armenian Boys’ Farm Home and about the boys’ experiences of being sent out to farms in Ontario. Created by Isabel Kaprielian in 1987.
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A 26-minute documentary about how the Georgetown Boys were brought to Canada in the 1920s as part of a humanitarian undertaking. It uses archival materials and interviews with the Boys (now men) to tell their story and was recorded at the Armenian Boys’ Farm Home in Georgetown and the Armenian Community Centre in Toronto. Created by Dorothy Manoukian in 1987. -
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This is our founder Raffi Sarkissian’s MEd thesis about the benefits of genocide education and the challenges teachers face while advocating for its implementation. It explores the history and development of genocide curricula then examines the Toronto District School Board’s efforts to develop and implement Canada’s first senior-level course dedicated to genocide education.
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Aram Adjemian’s The Call from Armenia: Canada’s Response to the Armenian Genocide is a wonderful book full of historical newspaper articles and private government correspondence. It traces Canadian reactions to Armenians’ humanitarian needs from 1880 through 1923.
This book was published by a small press in 2015. If you need help finding a copy, please write to us. You might also be interested in the master’s thesis that it was based on.
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This is the Ontario Heritage Trust’s write-up about the Armenian Boys’ Farm Home in Georgetown, Ontario (in the Town of Halton Hills). It provides the text of the English-and-French, bilingual plaque that the trust erected in 2011 and an overview of the site’s history.
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This academic article by our director of research Daniel Ohanian is about the migration of the Georgetown Boys and Girls—children and women who had survived the Armenian Genocide—to Canada. Its full title is “Sympathy and Exclusion: The Migration of Child and Women Survivors of the Armenian Genocide from the Eastern Mediterranean to Canada, 1923–1930.”
This is the summary:
In 1918, some 500,000 Ottoman Armenians found themselves displaced from their homes or living in Muslim households in the Eastern Mediterranean and the South Caucasus. For most, life did not return to normal after WWI. Rather, new wars, war scares, political maneuverings, economic policies, famines, and epidemics during 1918–1930 resulted in a long-term refugee crisis that was responded to by a large number of Armenian and non-Armenian organizations. This article looks at one such response: the humanitarian relocation to Canada of 110 boys and 39 girls and women—all genocide refugees and most of them orphans. It traces how this relocation campaign was realized despite Canadian immigration authorities’ long-standing efforts to keep Asians, the impoverished, and the stateless from entering the country. Breaking with the often simplistic and celebratory tone of the literature on humanitarian aid to Ottoman Armenians, this article discusses how the Canadian fundraising campaigns of 1880–1922 were a liability for this subsequent relocation project, and it pays special attention to the people and ideas that opposed it.