50 YEARS AGO: DEMONSTRATION IN MONTREAL – THE GAZETTE 26 APRIL 1965

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March 5, 2015

Montreal’s Armenian community Saturday observed the memory of more
than 2,000,000 Armenians massacred in Turkey 50 years ago.

 More than 2,500 marchers, some of whom lost entire families, paraded
slowly along downtown Dorchester Blvd.

 The march, led by two Armenian boy scouts carrying the new Canadian
flag, was part of a world-wide demonstration commemorating the
massacres that started in Constantinople, now Istanbul, on April
24, 1915.

 At the Cenotaph, the marchers laid a wreath.

 Of Canada’s 15,000 Armenians, approximately 5,000 live in Montreal.

 As well as being part of a day of mourning and prayer, the march
was a protest.

 The Armenians say Turkey has never been called to account for the
massacres.

 They started by order of the Turkish minister of the interior and in
the next three years an estimated 2,000,000 Armenians-three-quarters
of the population-were deported and slain.

                                                          Gazette 26
April 1965

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress