Mayor Rick Bonnette’s message: ‘Georgetown Boys’ should be honoured with a Canadian stamp

Mayor Rick Bonnette’s Message: ‘Georgetown Boys’ should be honoured with a Canadian stamp –

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 
Mayor of Halton Hills

December 24, 2013

The Georgetown Independent  Free Press