A memorial exhibit marking a dark part of Canada’s First World War involvement was unveiled in Calgary Saturday.
An interpretive panel dedicated to remembering internment operations was installed in the Ukrainian Pioneers Park in the northeast.
An interpretive panel dedicated to remembering internment operations was installed in the Ukrainian Pioneers Park in the northeast. That decision led to the government imprisoning more than 8,000 European immigrants -- mostly Ukrainians -- when the war broke out. They were deemed enemies of the state and shipped to 24 camps across Canada, forced into labour as the fighting continued. "When I found out about it only a year ago, I thought it was kind of crazy that this isn't anything that we're taught about or know about," Kyle Hoyda with the Ukrainian Canadians Civil Liberties Foundation said.
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