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j parents letown in his home by jerry tuton practically everyone has heard about nazi concentrarm camps and how 6000000 jews were incinerated shot or kil led- by other violent means du ring the second world war due to nazi atrocities the word genocide has become well known to everyone but few seem to remember that a similar genocide was commit- ted by another nation 25 years before the jewish massacre the nation was ottoman tur key and its victims were three million armenians living in the eastern part of turkey the area chey lived in was fottnerly called armenia but in the middle ages had been overrun by turks they were aliens during the 500 year turkish occupation armenians were harassed persecuted and mas sacred frequently in 1896 tur kish mobs killed 300000 they were persecuted because they were christians and aliens during the first world war turkey decided to end the ar menian problem once and for all by killing all armenians living in turkey the plan was carried out with unprecedented barbarity res ulting in the massacre of 500- 000 armenians the rest were driven into the syrian desert to arab countries or fled for their lives the massacre created thousi ands of orphans who for years roamed from town to town homeless and without food ma ny died of hunger others were aided by the american refugee fund a small minority was ac commodated in western orph- haig kouybumjian is looking back 45 years to the george- town armenian boys school picture most of the people in the picture still live in canada but mr kouyoumjian is the only one still living in this area members that some of the pas georgetown armenian boys senftcrs gave them fruit and school picture most of the peo- candies pie in the picture live in can lada but mr kouyoumjian is the armenian boys home onv ono slill liv in this was on main street south the aroa tht stllrienls were brought boys were taught english and t0 canala 45 ycars ag0 worked on the farm as chore boys and milk boys it was armenian forbidden to speak and the boys uere anages in a different part of the told to change their names and middle east alopt anglosaxon names we haig kouyoumjian 17 ellen k together and derided r street brampton is one of the werc not rolnk l chansr nlr names c told the principal hundreds of orphans who were rescued and taken care of in these orphanages mr kouyoumjian was bom in 1915 in cacsaria turkey of armenian parents both his pa thats all vr parents you from us have lott of cant lake our thai mr kouyoumjian said tin- orphans were treated wrll al rents were killed during the though the food seemed strange massacre he doesnt know if lo nem nevcr llkcd lhc he had any other relatives he porridge they cooked for us cant even remember his moth er and father five years old he lived in the armenian boys home for nearly two years and in 1926 asked t be transferred where t rntim learn the arming businessin a shorter time friends had left he faintly remembers a bri tish missionary group saving him and taking him to con stantinople istanbul he was five years old at the time mr whcn he return kouyoumjian stayed at the or town scvcn ycars latrr phanage for a year and thcnj arca tcrman wth thousands of other orph- fi h ans was transported to corfu because istanbul had become unsafe for armenian orphans forty of the orphans were brought to canada in 1923 the following year the orphan age administrators decided orphan friends the boys had scull red to all parts of ontario and hie home was converted into a school called edarvale school for litis kouyoumjian married in liitj and worked on area farms 111111i my miq at bring another group lo canada 1945 thal vrar hc jr vert florists of brampton ik moved to brampton with hi family because wartime aasn i line restrictions made commut i ing from georgetown to hramp ton difficull cars ti mr kouyoumjian as m that second group before finalizing the applications the boys underwent rigid medical tests spme of the boys who rffrlnt want to leave nibbed onions in their eyes said mr i koiivnumnan nf hramp kouyoumjian so that doctors is i 4a would think they had train oma and reject them i had no reason lo sta in that part of the world i hail l no one besides the orphans who came in 1923 sent good reports about canada hc said the ss braga left piraeus greece in mid1924 with 40 or phans on board i think it was a french ship they were serv ing- wine on the table mr kouyoumjian recalled go to georgetown the ship arrived in halifax in i september and two days later the boys were brought to the armenian boys home in geor ketown on their way to tor onto whenever the train stop ped the orphans were asked sing armenian songs at the i station mr kouyoumjian re j concrete gravel building sand road gravel fill and top soil garnet bud haines glen wlliams 8773302 gethoppin on spring shoppin jims steering service complete brake service wheal alignment wheel balancing general repairs park street glen williams 8776554 signs a complete service flqvett swns ltd 28 industrial stl guelph 8229558 i get an hfc shoppers loan whats on your spring shopping list new clothes for the family necessary things for the house a shoppers loan from household finance cov ers those spring expenses lets you repay hfc in convenientmonthly amounts make your first shopping stop at hfc household finance before yen hon en th jtfj mwetoieenmal yetir lean will cost borrow up to 5000 take up to 0 months o repay household h georgetown 41 main street north telephone 8775221 next la silver department store ask about our evening hours mcneil mcdowell have new posts in school system the work of the north halton areas two former area sup erintendents has been phased out w leonard mcneil former area superintendent of the halton no 4 milton nassa- gaweya and acton has been appointed a superintendent of schools with the ontario dcpt of education with responsibil ity for private secondary schools in the grades 11 to 13 level orville g mcdowell who was area superintendent in halton no 1 esquesing and georgetown has accepted a po sitional program consultant in special education with the de partment and is responsible now for region 7 which includ es simcoe dufforin peel hal ton and 3 boroughs of metro toronto they are both working oui of a department office at 40 eg- linton ave e- toronto mr mcneil came to the hal ton office as an inspector ten years ago and says he enjoyed every minute of his work in the area he recalls the introduc tion of the new mathematics continuous progress and the equipping of every school in his area with just one ex ception with fine new lib rary resource centre facilities amonff the accomplishments in education during his tenure here he began his new work in midjan and is working with two other superintendents responsible for between 40 and 50 private schools and second ary roman catholic schools in the hamiltontoronto area mr mcneil is a former ijigh school teacher and although his work has been concentrated at the elementary school level for se veral years hc reports he en joys getting back into second ary education again mr mcdowell has been with the halton inspectorate for 8 ycars hii work is mainly lia ison and giving assistance where needed to individual tea chers and administrators re sponsible for each countys spe cial education projects slow learners perceptually handi capped the gifted and chil dren with brain damage lo began the new task on a part time basis last september and went into it full time on janu ary 20th the new halton county board of education has taken over the inspecting of all halton schools and e s lavender has been appointed coordinalor of the north halton arca working from an office in corgetown deer in park postmaster harold marshall did a double take a week sun day morning when he looked out a back window in his charl es street home to see a deer in the town park it is rarely that deer venture into town limits although they are plentiful in the countryside parents panel discusses training retarded children on monday march 3 parents and teachers of north halton sunshine school enjoyed- an evening of discussion and study on the trainable retarded child- e lavender superintendent of north halton for the coiihty board of education brought greetings from the board k armstrong superintendent of special education for halton county board of education spoke to the group of his hopes and aspirations for education in our special schools and his des ire to know he children and their needs a panel of five parents mrs ad hall mrs l pickering l virus r cotter and b cannon discussed problems that can arise as a parent of a retarded child rev m christenson as moderator of the panel guided more- discussion from the floor the set questions discussed- by the pand were as follows 1 do you have problems with other members of your family because of your relardcd child if so how do you handle them 2 do you feci discrimination i towards your child by children outside of your family adults i if so how do you cope with it 3 do you treat your child as yinj do the other children in your family or do you tend to discriminate responsibilities family outings etc 4 does your child like school does your child benefit from school curriculum how i 5 does your child have protr lems that could be helped by the school and teachers do you 6 have you made definite jjlans for the future of your child guardian plans for a further study suggested which would include thi oiorcitown himld thursday march 20 1969 pa0e 12 5040 winner sales of 5050 tickets which will help finance the trip west of the juvenile hockey team continue to grow each week last week ann puckering terra cotta had the lucky tick et and her share of the weeks sales was 36425 a panel- of professional advisors including a doctor dentist law- wereyer public health nurse and cdhcatot optometrist r r hamilton od 116 mountainviaw south carretal bldg for appointment 8773971 draper d0bie co ltd members the toronto stock exchange stock and bond brokers your nearest branch office phone brampton or melton and toronto 4595222 773757 no toll charge from georgetown and vicinity successful investors a traders know draper dobie david r chappie wis e beatty a number of men were chat ting at the church gate kou youmjian approached them and said hello i didnt know what to say but they recog- i mzed me they said i hadnt changed a few minutes latrr others joined us some roulrl speak armrnian others had forgotten the lantiajc but no one had changed his name they met the minister who rae a rousing sermon and lat er joined them for the reunion banquet the next day being sunda the whole group went on a picnic they sang their childhood songs ate armenian food- for lhc first time in 45 years anrl promised to hold an other reunion this year mr kouyoumjian is looking forward to that day j he has no thoughts of visit- ins his homeland i have no i one there all the armenians livins in cacsaria 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