Desperate Flight and Neighbouring Lands

Armenian community: Most, like her mother family, had come in desperate flight from the 1915 genocide in Turkey, which sent a wave of Armenians into neighbouring lands, according to Globe and Mail. That the background to Nancy experience as a refugee: Her family has been in this situation before, of having to escape an all-consuming violence that arrives on the doorstep with no apparent reason. She spent most of their time within the Armenian community, which numbered about 100,000 when the Syrian civil war began. The theme of exile was familiar to her long before the guns came out in Aleppo, through tales passed on about escape from the genocide, tales that she recently illustrated for centenary commemorations in Montreal. She may not yet have much knowledge of the country where she living, but she has a strong and very portable sense of where she from. At 19, living in a strange land where she speaks neither official language with any fluency, Nancy seems remarkably self-possessed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.