Remembering Canada’s first national internment operations
October 28th is National Internment Education Day, commemorating Canada’s first national internment operations of 1914-1920.
UCCLF unveils plaque commemorating “enemy aliens” in Toronto’s Bloor West Village
The Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation (UCCLF) on Saturday officially unveiled Canada’s latest educational and commemorative plaque marking a darker chapter in Canadian history – the internment operations during and after the First World War which ensnared 8,000 Ukrainians and others in a network of 24 camps, and forced a further 80,000 to check in semi-regularly with the police.
The Camps
The Camps is a free teaching guide that uses documentary film to raise critical awareness among secondary school students about the largely unknown story of Canada’s First National Internment Operations.
Unveiling of Emerson, MB, First World War Internment Operations Photographic Monument and Interpretive Panel Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation
The Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation (UCCLF) and the Municipality of Emerson-Franklin Tourism Committee invite you to attend the official opening of a new educational and commemorative exhibit marking Canada’s First World War internment operations of 1914 to 1920.
ENDOWMENT COUNCIL MEMBERS OF THE CANADIAN FIRST WORLD WAR INTERNMENT RECOGNITION FUND MEET AND ATTEND NATIONAL INTERNMENT ART EXHIBIT OPENING IN VERNON, B.C.
On June 4, 2022, the Endowment Council of the Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund (CFWWIRF) held a meeting in Vernon, British Columbia, site of the central permanent internment camp of British Columbia, which once imprisoned hundreds of so-called “enemy aliens” during Canada’s first national internment operations of 1914 to 1920
GRANT OPPORTUNITY
The Endowment Council of the Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund (CFWWIRF) is requesting a professional researcher or researchers to collect, catalogue and prepare a finding aid and database of articles in Canadian ethnic newspapers reporting on the internments of 1914-1920.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE APPOINTMENT OF NEW MEMBER TO THE ENDOWMENT COUNCIL OF THE CANADIAN FIRST WORLD WAR INTERNMENT RECOGNITION FUND (CFWWIRF)
The Board of Directors of the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko, Shevchenko Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Joseph Patrouch to the Endowment Council of the Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund.
Internment camp documentary looks at buried Canadian history
Over 100 years ago, Anne Sadelain’s father was imprisoned at a First World War internment camp in B.C.’s Monashee Mountains.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
During Canada’s first national internment operations of 1914-1920 thousands of men, women and children were branded as “enemy aliens.” Many were imprisoned. Stripped of what little wealth they had, forced to do heavy labour in Canada’s hinterlands, they were also disenfranchised and subjected to other state-sanctioned censures, not because of anything they had done but only because of where they had come from, who they were.
KOBZAR™ Book Award 2022 Shortlist Announced
Presented biennially, the $25,000 KOBZAR™ Book Award recognizes outstanding contributions
to Canadian literary arts by authors who write on a topic with a tangible connection to the