AGBU Chapters in Canada
The August 1925 foundation of the AGBU’s first Canadian chapter, in Toronto, with Levon Babayan as its president, should not blind us to the fact that Canada long remained closed to Armenian immigration, with the exception of the 1,800 Armenians who managed to settle in the country between 1900 and 1915.21 Between 1919 and 1930, racial restrictions on settlement in Can¬ada–Armenians were categorized as “inassimilable” and “undesirable” “Asians”–held the number of Armenian immigrants to a mere 1,250.22 Among those admitted to the country despite the restrictions were the famous “Georgetown Boys,” orphans adopted in 1923 by a Canadian charitable organization that brought them to Ontario, some thirty miles from Toronto.23 Read all
AGBU Chapters in Argentina and the Rest of Latin America
The Armenian community of Argentina is an old one. Its beginnings go back to before World War I, as is attested by the creation of the country's first AGBU chapter in Buenos Aires in May 1911, with H. Hagopian as its president. A second chapter was formed in Cordoba in May 1918 under the leadership of Ghugas Kalustian. Armenian immigrants did not, however, begin arriving in large numbers in Argentina until the late 1920s or early 1930s. Many came from Greece and, to a somewhat lesser extent, the ... Read all
The members of the Buenos Aires chapter in 1929 (AGBU arch./New York).
Migrant Armenian workers en route for Canada (AGBU arch./New York).
The «Georgetown Boys» around 1923 (AGBU arch./New York).
The AGBU’s Local Chapters