Canadian WWI Internment plaque unveiling: Beauport Armoury
June 302010
A short video documenting the first of two plaque unveilings that took place on September 30, 2006 at Beauport Armoury and Val Cartier both near Quebec City, Canada.
The plaques are commemorating two of the 24 WWI internment camps across Canada that held of 8000 Eastern Europeans, 5000 of whom were Ukrainian. The Ukrainians were targeted because the area that they came from was part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, with which Canada and its allies were at war. The Canadian government took advantage of the situation and used the internees as cheap labour to do public works. This was Canada’s first internment operation and application of the War Measures act. It continued from 1914-1920, some internees being held even after the war ended. This episode of Canadian history is little known. Inky Mark, MP, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko, the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association, and many other volunteers across Canada worked for years to have the government recognize this injustice. Inky Mark introduced Bill C-331 (Ukrainian Canadian Restitution Act) and was accepted in 2005. (see links http://www.infoukes.com/history/internment/bill_c-331/)
The following people are seen in the video: Dr. LUBOMYR LUCIUK (Director of Research, Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association), KIM PAWLIW reading poem (Grand-daughter of internee), ANNE SADELAIN unveiling plaque (Daughter of internee), Priests from the Ukrainian Catholic REV. OLEH KORETSKY and Ukrainian Orthodox REV. Dr. IHOR KUTASH churches bless the plaque, and NANCY LYZANIWSKI presents remarks.
For information on the internment: For information
on the internment: http://www.uccla.ca/internment.htm | http://www.infoukes.com/history/internment/ | http://www.quebec-ukraine.com/lib/quebec/maltraites_1.html | http://www.quebec-ukraine.com/news/ev/2006_internement_memory.html
Duration : 0:6:26
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June 30th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
And lets us not …
And lets us not forget the Next Generation. Us descendants are still holocausted with R&D Research, isolation/exclusion at wrong diagnoses, and subject to theft of real estate/intellectual property.
June 30th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
Great documentary …
Great documentary on the subject “Freedom Had A Price”. It is hard to spend time in Banff, Hot Springs or in Ontario, Fort Henry, and not remember with sadness how Ukrainians were treated, and forced to build national treasures.
June 30th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
great clip! we need …
great clip! we need to see more video documentation of the internment of ukrainians.