Isabel Kaprielian Churchill combines the skills of the historian with the imagination of a novelist in a compelling history of the more than seventy-five thousand Armenians who have settled in Canada.
Featuring moving interviews with survivors of the genocide, Like Our Mountains has an emotional intensity rare for a work of historical scholarship. It relates the history of the Canadian-Armenian community from its founding, settlements, and economic adjustments; its social, religious, political, and cultural life; transformations over generations; and relationship with other communities in Canadian history. Based on exhaustive research in English, Armenian, and French sources, Kaprielian-Churchill’s examination covers the major Canadian cities settled by Armenian immigrants: Brantford before 1915, St. Catharines after World War I, Hamilton after World War II, and Toronto and Montreal from the 1960s to 1988.
