The Armenian community in diaspora has been struggling for more than half a century to have the genocide perpetrated against Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915-1916 recognized. This crime has been largely ignored due to the Turkish policy of institutionalized denial and the indifference of the international community. Our paper examines the political and symbolic dynamics at work in the representation by the Quebec media of the demand by the Armenian community in Quebec for recognition of the Armenian genocide. More specifically, we analyse representation of the memory of the Armenian genocide in two Quebec newspapers, Le Devoir and La Presse, from the earliest instance of the demand for recognition in the 1960s to the end of the 1990s. Our analysis of the press corpus was done using innovative computerised textual data analysis tools.