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- Cedarvale } t 3 By Oksana Buhel Paul Adourian, now a Toronto resident, was seven- years-old when he arrived at Farm in Georgetown on July 1, 1923. He was one of the youngest of the first 50, of an eventual 109 Armenian orphans who were brought to Canada to start a new, and hopefully, unscarred life. The orphans, whose ages ranged from seven to 12, had lost either one or both par- ents during the exiles and massacres of Armenians in Turkey between 1915-1922. They were being kept at the Lord Mayor’s Fund orphan- age in Corfu, Greece. « “My mother had to put us (Adourian and his older brother Onnig) into the orphanage because she just had a baby girl,” explained Adourian. “She couldn’t take care of us and the baby at the same time. My father had been shot in Turkey.” The Armenian Relief Fund of Canada, based in Toronto, worked feverishly with other organizations to coordinate funds to buy the orphans food, clothes and other essentials. The organizers of the Relief Fund decided to take their aid one step further and attempt to bring some of the orphans to Canada to educate and train them to work the land. The task was a monumen- tal one, since Canadian poli- cy at the time discouraged immigration from the Near East, Asia and Africa. Dr. AJ. Vining, secretary of the Armenian Relief Fund, took up the crusade to convince government officials to loosen regulations. He wrote hundreds of letters to hun- dreds of influential Canadians, hoping they would, in turn, influence oth- ers.-One letter addressed the plight of “a million murdered Armenians (who) are plead- ing with civilization to care for the battered Temnants of an ancient race.” Long-awaited reply On April-4, 1923, Vining received his long-awaited reply from G.B. Smart, supervisor of juvenile immi- The plaque to commemorate the “Georgetown Boys” and people involved in “Canada’s Noble Experiment,” was erected on the south wall of the Cedarvale Community Centre on the 61 anniversary of the first group of boys’ arrival, on July 1, 1984. photo by Oksana Buhe/HHTW ‘Georgetown Boys anniversary passes quietly gration, stating 100 Armenian orphan children would be accepted into Canada, under numerous list- ed conditions, including; full responsibility of the boys by. the Canadian Armenian Relief Fund; requirement of top physical and mental state of the boys, and the mainte- nance of detailed records of the boys. The. government also allotted $25,000 to the project, which came to be own as “Canada’s Noble Experiment.” Adourian explained the reaction from the other side of the ocean. “We (the orphans) knew something was happening,” he said. “We were told some of us were going to Canada, but we didn’t know who. It was very exciting Cedarvale Farm selected Once the official approval was granted, a location had to be selected where the orphans could be housed and educated before being sent off to the farms of their fos- ter parents. The location selected was the current Cedarvale Park, Continued on page 10 Ten-year-old Andrew Martin couldn’t wait to hit the water (as his facial expression shows) at last Monday’s opening of the Dick Licata Outdoor Pool in Georgetown. photo by Simon Wilson/HHTW UGRinson s_ BRENDA PAYTON ASSOCIATES Seles Representaive The ph St, Georgetown 873-2254 TWA site routes selected but not identified Interim “Waste Authority (TWA) has identi- fied preferred haul routes for each of five possible landfill sites in the Region of Peel. Residents om Spee erty owners wl land are ence Surin impact ‘study zones - identi- fied for each of the pre- ferred routes - will be asked to complete a survey over Tachman Car Club held its monthly Cruise Night Wednesday at the Pizza Hut park- ing lot in Georgetown and Roman Chymycz was seen with his date for the evening (Madonna) in his 1959 Corvette. photo by Simon Wilson/HHTW the coming two weeks as part of the sixth step in the IWA’s detailed examination of the “short” list sites. The more preferred ‘haul routesswere selected from a number ‘of -alternatives for waste vehicle travel to each of the possible landfill sites in the study area. Impact study zones were identified along each route where the study team believed waste vehicle travel would have on. impact on the surround- ing_area. Property owners. whose lands lie within the impact study zones were invited to attend open hous- es and workshops held in late May and early June to obtain information about the routes or to provide feed- back on the haul route alter- natives to the study team. Preferred Waste Haul Routes The preferred haul routes, one for each candidate site, were selected after analyz- ing the potential impact of waste vehicle travel along each alternative route. This analysis included detailed traffic and transportation Studies as well as examining the potential impact on the selection of a preferred landfill site to serve. the dis- posal needs for the Region of Peel. The IWA is current- ly in Step 6 of the site search process, which involves detailed studies of each of the five possible sites which are on the Peel list. of sites announced last November. The preferred sites are ted to be announced in late summer. 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