Gagik AngeloI am a descendant of a survivor of the Armenian Genocide! 39 mins · Meet Our Armenian-Canadian Poet and Academic Dr. Alan Whitehorn!
Dr. Alan Whitehorn: "I am an Armenian-Canadian poet and academic, who is active in genocide education and Armenian Genocide recognition. My parents Malcolm Whitehorn of Ottawa and Vartouie Whitehorn (Alajajian) from Alexandria, Egypt, met and married in Alexandria during WW II. My grandmother Sirhoun Alajajian/Hamamdjian was an orphan of the 1915 Armenian Genocide and eventually immigrated to Canada. Several of my poems (“Remembering Genocide” and “How Do We Remember the Dead”) were read into the official Hansard transcripts of the Senate and House of Commons prior to the passage of the Canadian Parliamentary resolutions in which Canada officially recognized the Armenian Genocide".
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