Lorne Shirinian’s new book, My Family, Surviving Genocide, Becoming Canadian, has just been published by Blue Heron Press. In the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923, more than one and a half million Armenian citizens of the Ottoman Empire were deported and murdered in the first modern genocide of the 20^th century. My father, my mother, and my maternal uncle were orphan survivors of this Genocide. The story of their survival and passage to Canada where they became proud citizens is a very human adventure that took place at the time when Canada, a young nation  itself, was maturing. Their history is an early example of how an ethnic minority contributed to Canadian society while maintaining their historical identities in the Armenian diaspora. This is the story of my family.