[news] Canada's First Internment Camps

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PM reaches out to Ukrainians Ottawa to spend $2.5-million to mark internment of citizens in First World War Thursday, August 25, 2005 Ukrainian-Canadians victims of wartime hysteria City man's father endured internment and racial slurs, others were shot, Thursday, August 25, 2005 Before they interned the Japanese, the Canadian Government interned first and second wave Ukrainian immigrant. They did this creating the War Measures Act supposedly because Ukrainian immigrants were from Austro-Hungarian Empire and thus 'enemy aliens'. The real story is that they were interned for being communists, socialists, and labour radicals.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/8/29/3546/19968