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Pages from Armenian-Canadian History is the Corning Centre’s first book-length publication. It brings together all known issues of Ararat Monthly and Արարատ ամսաթերթ, two newsletters published by the Georgetown Boys and their teacher Aris Alexanian in the 1920s. The Georgetown Boys were a group of 110 genocide orphans brought to Canada starting in 1923. Led. . .

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This long essay by Professor Uğur Üngör is the best overview of the Armenian Genocide of this length. It explains why and how the genocide happened and what its legacies are. The text is too advanced for most high-school students, but it’s appropriate for teachers. It does an exceptional job of explaining these events from. . .

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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. Click here

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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. . .

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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. . .

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