Pages from Armenian-Canadian History: The Ararat Monthlies, 1926–1929
Armenian Community Centre of Toronto
Ararat Monthly and Արարատ ամսաթերթ were newsletters published by the Georgetown Boys and their teacher Aris Alexanian.
Survivors of the Armenian Genocide, these boys and young men created the Ararats to practice their English and Armenian, to share their artwork and short stories, to spread news about life on their orphanage-farm, and to keep connected with Armenians around the world. At their peak, they had 2,000 subscribers in more than thirty countries. They released 15 issues in English and at least 30 in Armenian between 1926 and 1929.
The Georgetown Boys were a group of 110 genocide orphans brought to Canada starting in 1923. This publication by the Sara Corning Centre for Genocide Education marks the centennial of the start of the humanitarian initiative that brought them to Georgetown, Ontario. It is made possible by the Corning Centre’s work, over the past decade, to gather the dispersed remnants of these newsletters from families, libraries, and archives in Canada, Armenia, Austria, France, and the United States. Now brought together in a single volume, the Ararats are once again available to readers around the world.
Proceeds support the publisher’s educational mission.
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