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Statue to nurse who rescued thousands of Armenian orphans unveiled in Canada

Statue to Sara Corning, a Canadian nurse who saved orphans during the Armenian Genocide was unveiled today in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Horizon Weekly informs in a Facebook post.

Anahit Harutyunyan, Ambassador of Armenia to Canada, was present at the event.

The bronze statue has been created by world-renowned Armenian sculptor Garen Bedrossian.

Born in the village of Chegoggin, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1872, nurse Sara Corning made it her life’s mission to help others. In her mid-twenties, she moved to the United States for training and worked in New England for almost 20 years, before returning to Nova Scotia to help the 10,000 victims of the Halifax Explosion.

In 1918, at the age of 46, Sara was certified by the American Red Cross and joined Near East Relief—an organization created to help civilians affected by the Great War. Landing in Constantinople (Istanbul) soon after, she helped rescue and care for thousands of Armenian and Greek orphans, often risking her life in the process, for more than a decade. 

In 2016, nearly a century after Corning’s heroic decision to dedicate her life to help genocide survivors, David and Jennifer Chown of Nova Scotia founded the Sara Corning Society, which honors the nurse’s life and humanitarian work.

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