Welcome To The Homenetmen Canada Region's Website!

2008, a year of milestones. Homenetmen around the world celebrates it's 90th anniversary since its founding in 1918 in Istanbul.

In Canada, Montreal celebrates its 50th anniversary and Hamilton its 40th. In honour of it's 50th anniversary, the Montreal chapter will be holding a Soccer Tournament over the weekend of Sept 5 to 7, see Flyer and will also be hosting the 38th Homenetmen Canada Regional Games Nov 28 - 30 2008

Homenetmen Canada Scouts from Montreal, Toronto, and Cambridge took part in the Regional Scout camp which took place from July 19 to 26 at Camp Awacamenj Mino which is a camp about 1 hour north west of Ottawa in Quebec. There were 107 campers from Montreal, 49 from Toronto, and 6 campers from Cambridge participating in their first ever Regional Camp.

                            Please Click Here to check out the camp info page.

The 5th quadrennial camp proved to be a great success as the over 150 campers had a great time. They went canoeing, rock climbing, hiking, swimming, and even took part in a little archery. The campfires at night were the highlight of the day as they prepared for the big campfire on Friday night when dozens of parents and visitor came up to the camp where they enjoyed the camaraderie of the environment with the scouts. The campers returned to Montreal, Toronto, and Cambridge Saturday night and they were all excited with stories for their parents and friends. A great experience, one that they won't soon forget.

They have sent lots of pictures and they are now uploaded in the picture gallery. Check out the entire Activity List.

Camp Programs: Please Click on Boy and Girl Venturers, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts.

 

Homenetmen Canada is proud to have Paricipated in the 15th Annual East USA Homenetmen Games in Chicago from July 3 to 7, 2008. Teams from Toronto took part in Soccer, Basketball, Swimming, and Track & Field. Toronto's Junior Boy's Basketball and Midget Boy's Basketball teams went all the way and came home with Gold Medals. The Track and Field team also did very well and came home with several medals as well. All this helped to put Toronto in 3rd overall from a particpant's list of 10 cities. Congratulations to all the athletes and coaches for a great performance Please Click here for the official Games Site.

Next up is the 38th Homenetmen Canada Games which will take place in Montreal from November 28 to 30, 2008.

Homenetmen members took part in May 28, Armenian Indpendance Day Celebrations in Montreal, Toronto, and Cambridge. All three chapter cities had parades in which Homenetmen Scouts, athletes, and members took part. To see pictures, please click: Montreal Parade, Toronto Parade, Cambridge Parade.

Did you know that Homenetmen Canada is the largest Armenian organization in Canada ! With over 1,600 members in 5 chapters, Homenetmenagans make up the heart and soul of most of the major Armenian communities in Canada.

Homenetmen Canada's 35th Regional Representatives Meeting took place in Toronto the weekend of March 28 to 30, 2008. There was cocktail reception held in the foyer of the AYC to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Homenetmen and the 50th anniversary of Homenetmen in Canada. The reception was attended by politicians from all three levels of government, representatives from all sister organizations from the ACC and Homenetmenagans. The meeting opening took place Friday night with the nomination of the meeting chairs and recording secretaries. Representatives from Montreal, Cambridge, and Toronto presented their annual reports. The Regional Executive gave it's reports on Saturday. The final item on the meeting agenda was the election of 2 New Members as the terms for Levon Nadjarian and Haig Agopian were up.

The new Canada Homenetemen Executive is:

Papken Garabedian, Mosig Topouzian, Vahan Tchalikian

and new members: Raffi Apanian and Mihran Hacherian

Please click here to see some pictures.

Please click here to get a PDF copy of the meeting agenda.

Homenetmen Canada's "Nerkin Ganonakir" Policy, Procedure, and By-Law Manual is now available on line. The document is in PDF format. Click on the yellow box to the right. (It may take a minute to open up depending on your connection)

Homenetmen Canada is proud to announce that long time member, yeghpayr Armen Kidikian has been elected by the 9th World Congress of Homenetmen as the new Getronagan member representing Canada. yeghpayr Armen has been a Homenetmenagan since he was a Wolf Cub. He has been a member of Homenetmen Toronto from it's inception 39 years ago and has held several posts including Scout Khorourt, Varchagan Committee and most recently, Canadian Regional Committee. Yeghpayr Armen replaces yeghpayr Hratch DerSarkissian who has represented Canada for the last eight years. Please Click Here for Homenetmen World Site and further info.