List of Armenian Canadians


This is a list of notable Canadians of Armenian descent.

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Writers

Lorne Shirinian was born in Toronto in 1945. He is a poet, novelist, playwright, memoirist, and the author of many academic studies on Armenian diaspora literature. He is the author of 30 books. Shirinian is professor emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the Royal Military College of Canada. He founded and edited Manna, a review of contemporary poetry, in 1972 which published interviews and poems from all over the world. In 1994, he founded Blue Heron Press. At this writing, he is at work on his new novel, Troubled, which will be available in the summer of 2024.