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.
National Internment Education Day
October 28th is National Internment Education Day, commemorating Canada’s first national internment operations of 1914-1920.
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Ukrainian Canadian Art Foundation is proud to launch,Pause in Plight
Toronto, Canada – Pause in Plight, a 17-piece art exhibit, created by artist, Kerri Parnell reveals the Canadian WW1 national security fears and wartime prejudice, which led to the internment of more than 8,000 men, women and children primarily of Ukrainian and Eastern European descent deemed as “enemy aliens”.
NEW MEMBERS APPOINTED TO THE CFWWIRF ENDOWMENT COUNCILAUGUST 5, 2020
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Commemorating 100 Years of the end of Canada’s First National Internment Operations, 1914 to 1920.
( Winnipeg) – June 20, 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the end of Canada’s first national internment operations of 1914 to 1920.
100th anniversary Of The end of Canada’s first national internment operations
To All Internee Descendants of Canada’s first national internment operations of 1914 to 1920.
During Canada’s first national internment operations of 1914 to1920 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.
The Stories Were Not Told
