“My father equally loved his new adopted home in Canada while never, ever forgetting his proud Armenian heritage,” said a son of one orphan who arrived in Georgetown a century ago” Their voices carry on through their descendants, and through them their language has, once again, reverberated in Cedarvale Park in Georgetown. Hundreds of Armenian-Canadians,…

While the Armenian orphans known as the Georgetown Boys have garnered much attention, some may be surprised to learn there was a small but mighty group known as the Georgetown Girls too Armenian-American George Aghjayan remembers spending hours with his great-grandmother, Nevart Demirjian playing a Turkish card game with her called iskambil.  While working as…

With a ceremony honouring the orphans’ arrival 100 years ago set for this weekend, HaltonHillsToday is sharing the life stories of some Georgetown Boys Georgetown’s Cedarvale Farm was never meant to be a permanent home for the 109 Armenian boys who lived there a century ago – nor for the 39 girls who joined them. It…