{"id":2827,"date":"2015-04-25T17:28:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T22:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calla2.com\/wordpress\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2016-04-18T02:23:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T02:23:49","slug":"the-georgetown-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/the-georgetown-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"The Georgetown Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/georgetown1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2873 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/georgetown1.jpg\" alt=\"georgetown\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/georgetown1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/georgetown1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/georgetown1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A moving experience in Georgetown Ontario with Armenian students bussed in from all over. As I sat on a picnic table and watched these very young children playing in the trees and chasing after each other with shouts of joy I couldn&#8217;t help but think of those first orphaned little boys who came in 1923, in what became known as Canada&#8217;s Noble Experiment &#8212; ie &#8212; Canada&#8217;s first international relief effort.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2827 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/boysshovels\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1356\" height=\"972\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/boysshovels.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/boysshovels.jpg 1356w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/boysshovels-150x108.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/boysshovels-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/boysshovels-1024x734.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/boysshovels-279x200.jpg 279w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/boysshovels-1200x860.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/boyscows\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1364\" height=\"974\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/boyscows.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/boyscows.jpg 1364w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/boyscows-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/boyscows-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/boyscows-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/boyscows-280x200.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/boyscows-1200x857.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Georgetown-25-April-2015-page-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2767\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calla2.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Georgetown-25-April-2015-page-001-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"Georgetown 25 April 2015-page-001\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Georgetown-25-April-2015-page-001-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Georgetown-25-April-2015-page-001-117x150.jpg 117w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Georgetown-25-April-2015-page-001-796x1024.jpg 796w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Georgetown-25-April-2015-page-001-156x200.jpg 156w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Georgetown-25-April-2015-page-001-1200x1543.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 85vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of children had been orphaned during the Armenian Genocide. By 1923, many had taken refuge in Corfu, in caves, on beaches, in old abandoned barracks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3662 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Armenian-orphans-Feb.23.jpg\" alt=\"Armenian orphans Feb.23\" width=\"340\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Armenian-orphans-Feb.23.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Armenian-orphans-Feb.23-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Armenian-orphans-Feb.23-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 85vw, 340px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>109 boys got a chance to start a new life in Canada. They left behind grandmothers and sisters and younger brothers, but they never forgot who they were.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2833\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2833\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aram.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2833 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calla2.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aram-1024x654.jpg\" alt=\"Aram's Choice\" width=\"640\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aram-1024x654.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aram-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aram-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aram-313x200.jpg 313w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/aram-1200x766.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover image by Muriel Wood for Aram&#8217;s Choice by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was heartening to see hundreds of Armenian Canadian children and their families coming together in Georgetown today, to remember those first little boys, and more importantly, to remember those who didn&#8217;t survive. One hundred years ago the Turkish government tried to obliterate Armenians, their culture, their blood. They killed 1.5 million Armenians, but the nation and memory lives and thrives worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>It was an honour to be one of the speakers at this commemorative event. I will never forget.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/april25.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2834 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calla2.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/april25-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"april25\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/april25-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/april25-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/april25-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/april25-356x200.jpg 356w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/april25-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A moving experience in Georgetown Ontario with Armenian students bussed in from all over. As I sat on a picnic table and watched these very young children playing in the trees and chasing after each other with shouts of joy I couldn&#8217;t help but think of those first orphaned little boys who came in 1923, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/the-georgetown-boys\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Georgetown Boys&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[34,227,33,46,38],"class_list":["post-2827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-34","tag-227","tag-armenian-genocide","tag-georgetown-boys","tag-orphans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3665,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions\/3665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}