‘GEORGETOWN BOYS’ SHOULD BE HONOURED WITH A CANADIAN STAMP

The Independent Free Press, Canada
December 24, 2013 Tuesday
ONT Edition

Mayor’s Message

By Rick Bonnette

Every year Canada Post issues commemorative stamps.

I have written to the Canada Post Stamp Advisory Committee asking
that the “Georgetown Boys” be considered for a special stamp.

The Georgetown Boys consisted of more than 100 Armenian orphans, mainly
teenaged boys, who came to Canada to escape the Armenian Genocide of
1915-23. They came to Georgetown and worked on a local farm.

This was Canada’s first ever international humanitarian effort of
non-British Commonwealth refugees.

The boys worked very hard making Canada their new home. Many enlisted
with the Canadian Armed Forces fighting in the Second World War. They
were Canadian heroes who died for our freedom.

There have been books and even a play written on the “Georgetown Boys”.

I would be nice to have a stamp honouring them. Federal MP Michael
Chong has joined me and the Armenian community in this request.

-Rick Bonnette is the mayor of Halton Hills

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