Aram Adjemian MA, Ottawa-Montreal (MA thesis: Concordia University, 2007)
This thesis explores the efforts undertaken by Canadians in support of the Armenian people from 1880 to the 1920s. Canadians first heard about the deteriorating conditions of life for the Ottoman Armenians soon after Confederation.
Aram Adjemian MA, Ottawa-Montreal (MA thesis: Concordia University, 2007)
This thesis explores the efforts undertaken by Canadians in support of the Armenian people from 1880 to the 1920s. Canadians first heard about the deteriorating conditions of life for the Ottoman Armenians soon after Confederation.
By the late nineteenth century, many people in burgeoning Canadian social and religious movements believed that urbanisation and industrialisation were contributing to degeneration in Canadian cities. As circumstances became progressively worse for the Ottoman Armenians, the Canadian reform movements that were critical of their own society became involved in various relief efforts for the Armenian people. Criticism of society’s evils was thus exported outside of Canada’s borders as well.