Year Numbers: Armenian and Thanksgiving

year numbers: While he had never celebrated the holiday before, for him and many others, starting a new life in Canada was at the top of the list of things to be grateful for, according to CBC. The Thanksgiving lunch, held at Holy Trinity Armenian Church in Scarborough, was hosted by Armenian Family Support Services, a non-profit organization that has sponsored nearly 300 Armenian-Syrian refugees since November 2015. Minassian was one of nearly 200 Syrian refugees who gathered for their first-ever Thanksgiving in a Toronto-area Armenian church on Sunday. Thanksgiving food bank donations lag behind last year numbers "We are thankful first that we are alive because we escaped from the war and second, thanks to the Canadian government. Less than one year ago, Mher Minassian was in charge of an Armenian cemetery in Syria. They brought us here," Minassian told CBC News on Sunday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.