In the News

• Spotlight put on dark internment camp history at Vernon school
  Drama class presents Seeds of Hope, tales from Vernon’s own Ukrainian and European camps
  Kelowna Capital News & Vernon Morning Star
  Jennifer Smith, February 8, 2021
  
  
• To All Internee Descendants of Canada’s first national internment operations of 1914 to 1920.
  
  The Board of Directors of the Shevchenko Foundation is currently seeking an internee descendant representative for March 2021 to March 2022. This appointment is for a one year fixed term. The submitted names will be considered as potential candidates for the Internee Descendant Endowment Council position. (Non-voting)
  
  We invite you to complete this form along with your resume by January 31, 2021.
  
  
• For immediate release – November 12, 2020
  
  APPOINTMENT OF NEW CHAIR OF 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 Borys Sirskyj (Ottawa) as Chair of the Endowment Council of the Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund.