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PRESENTATION OF BOOK TITLED "LIKE OUR MOUNTAINS. A HISTORY OF ARMENIANS IN CANADA" HELD IN OTTAWA
Pan Armenian
24.10.2005 20:56 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Presentation of a book titled "Like Our Mountains. A
History of Armenians in Canada" was held October 20, 2005 by Canadian
Armenian Network with the participation of the Union of Armenian
students of Ottawa and Carlton Universities on the initiative of
the Armenian Embassy in Canada, RA MFA press office reported. The
book by Isabel Kaprielian-Churchill, professor of Armenian and
immigration history, is the first comprehensive account of the
experience of the more than seventy-five thousand Armenians who
have found refuge in Canada from the late nineteenth century to the
devastating earthquake in 1988. Like Our Mountains relates the history
of the Canadian Armenian community from its founding, settlements,
and economic adjustments, to its social, religious, political, and
cultural life, transformations over generations, and relationship
with other communities in Canadian society. In her examination of
the cities settled by Armenian immigrants - Brantford before 1914,
St Catharines after World War I, Hamilton after World War II, and
Toronto and Montreal from the 1960s to 1988, Kaprielian-Churchill
has carried out exhaustive research in English, Armenian, and French
sources, including archives, oral histories, diaries and memoirs,
letters, and material culture. Especially moving are the interviews
with survivors of the genocide that provide the book with an emotional
intensity rare for a work of historical scholarship. Written in prose
that will appeal to scholars and general readers, Kaprielian-Churchill
combines the skills of a historian with the imagination of a novelist
in a compelling history of Canada's dynamic Armenian community.
Pan Armenian
24.10.2005 20:56 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Presentation of a book titled "Like Our Mountains. A
History of Armenians in Canada" was held October 20, 2005 by Canadian
Armenian Network with the participation of the Union of Armenian
students of Ottawa and Carlton Universities on the initiative of
the Armenian Embassy in Canada, RA MFA press office reported. The
book by Isabel Kaprielian-Churchill, professor of Armenian and
immigration history, is the first comprehensive account of the
experience of the more than seventy-five thousand Armenians who
have found refuge in Canada from the late nineteenth century to the
devastating earthquake in 1988. Like Our Mountains relates the history
of the Canadian Armenian community from its founding, settlements,
and economic adjustments, to its social, religious, political, and
cultural life, transformations over generations, and relationship
with other communities in Canadian society. In her examination of
the cities settled by Armenian immigrants - Brantford before 1914,
St Catharines after World War I, Hamilton after World War II, and
Toronto and Montreal from the 1960s to 1988, Kaprielian-Churchill
has carried out exhaustive research in English, Armenian, and French
sources, including archives, oral histories, diaries and memoirs,
letters, and material culture. Especially moving are the interviews
with survivors of the genocide that provide the book with an emotional
intensity rare for a work of historical scholarship. Written in prose
that will appeal to scholars and general readers, Kaprielian-Churchill
combines the skills of a historian with the imagination of a novelist
in a compelling history of Canada's dynamic Armenian community.