{"id":3368,"date":"2013-12-22T23:31:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T21:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamazkayin.com\/?page_id=3368"},"modified":"2025-12-27T09:27:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T07:27:40","slug":"canada","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hamazkayin.com\/en\/organization\/regions-and-chapters\/canada\/","title":{"rendered":"HAMAZKAYIN IN CANADA"},"content":{"rendered":"

History<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first chapter of Hamazkayin in North America was established in Montreal in August 1963. This chapter brought together a choir, dance group, and theater troupe that had been formed in the community, one after the other, beginning in 1955.<\/p>\n

The Toronto Chapter was formed in 1969, and its first event was an artistic evening dedicated to the centennial of the birth of the great musicologist Gomidas.<\/p>\n

These two chapters and Armenian cultural associations in Boston, New York, New Jersey, and Detroit came together in June 1975 to form the executive body of the Hamazkayin Armenian Cultural Association in the Eastern Region of North America. The purpose of this body was to gather all the local bodies under the Hamazkayin name and strengthen relations between them.<\/p>\n

Through the efforts of this executive body, chapters were formed in the Canadian cities of Hamilton and Cambridge in 1976.<\/p>\n

A Special Convention was convened in Toronto by the executive body in December 1976. It deciding to create two regional organizations, one for all of Canada and one for the Eastern United States. In June 1977, the inaugural Regional Representative Assemblies were held. The U.S. Eastern Region convened in Boston and the Canada Region in Hamilton to elect the first regional executive boards.<\/p>\n

In 1978, the Regional Executive Board for Canada formed the Book Distribution Committee. Through the chapters, the committee took on the distribution of Armenian books, records, and tapes in all Canadian cities with significant Armenian populations. This initiative, the most organized of its kind in Canada, effectively satisfied the literary needs of Armenian book lovers as well as the textbook requirements of Armenian schools.<\/p>\n

The Vancouver Chapter was created in 1981.<\/p>\n

In 2002, consistent with the provisions of the new bylaws approved by Hamazkayin\u2019s Fourth Congress, the Regional Executive Board for Canada encouraged the formation of \u201ccores.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cores<\/strong><\/p>\n

The following cores, which had been formed in the past, are currently dissolved:<\/p>\n