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Over 100 years ago, Anne Sadelain’s father was unjustly imprisoned at a camp in B.C.’s Monashee Mountains. Today, CHASI Faculty Associate Dr. Sarah Beaulieu and the Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund are uncovering the history Canada tried to bury.

November 25, 2021 marks 16 years since Bill C-331, the Internment of Persons of Ukrainian Origin Recognition Act, passed in parliament. With it, Canada acknowledged that persons of Ukrainian origin were interned in Canada during World War I, which lead to the creation of the Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund for educational and commemorative projects.

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• National Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the End of Internment in Canada
• Internment 100 – “A Final Tribute as well as Thanks and Acknowledgements”
• Internment 100 – “Statements from the Consul General of Ukraine in Edmonton and Ukrainian Bishops on Internment”
• Internment 100 – “Life of an Interned Prisoner”
• Internment 100 – “Official Recognition and Restitution”
• Internment 100 – “Internment at Banff”
• Internment 100 – “Thinking Across Cultures”
• Internment 100 – “Internment Education”
• Internment 100 – “Internment Camp Escape Tools”
• Internment 100 – “In Poetry and The Arts”
• Internment 100 – “Internment Literature”
• Internment 100 – “The Lethbridge Internment Camp Story”
• Internment 100 – “Sharing the Impact of internment Through Stories for Children and Youth”
• Internment 100 – “Fear of the Barbed Wire Fence”
• Internment 100 – “Impact on Descendants”
• Internment 100 – Statement of Alberta Premier Jason Kenney
• Internment 100 – “Award-Winning Documentary Film – That Never Happened”
• Internment 100 – “The Early Days of Research”
• Internment 100 – “The Recovery of Memory: Historical Markers at the Camps”
• Internment 100 – “The 24 Internment Camps: Locations Across Canada”
• Internment 100 – “Twenty Days of Remembrance”

• Observing the internment of Ukrainian Canadians at Fort Henry and elsewhere during WW1
  Lubomyr Luciuk, PhD
  

Parks Canada officially opened a newly updated exhibit to recognize Canada’s role in the First World War internment operations of 1914 to 1920 in Yoho National Park. A special ceremony was held in the park with representatives from the Canadian First World War Recognition Fund, the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the local community.Located west of Field, British Columbia, Camp Otter in Yoho National Park housed up to 200 internees who were unjustly interned as enemy aliens from 1915 to 1916 under the War Measures Act. During Canada’s first national internment operations of 1914 to 1920, over 8,000 people were sent to 24 camps across Canada, including camps in Banff, Jasper, Mount Revelstoke, and Yoho national parks. Thousands of Ukrainians and other Europeans were interned as a result of prejudice, or for failing to register, being unemployed, or trying to leave the country.

The new exhibit is located near the Natural Bridge, en route to Emerald Lake, 4 km west of Field in Yoho National Park.

Published on 19 May 2017
You’ll be amazed to hear about the internment of Canadian citizens during WWI and how it affected the Ukrainian community of Vernon, B.C.

Ukrainian version

• The Internment Operations
• The Fort Henry Service
• The Redress Movement
• Internee Descendants
• Educating the Public
• Learning from the Past