CONGRÈS DES UKRAINIENS CANADIENS (CUC) – Conseil provincial du Québec

Nous représentons la communauté ukrainienne auprès du peuple et du gouvernement du Québec

UKRAINIAN CANADIAN CONGRESS (UCC) – Quebec Provincial Council

We represents the Ukrainian community before the people and the Government of Quebec

КОНҐРЕС УКРАЇНЦІВ КАНАДИ (КУК) – Провінційна Рада Квебеку

Ми представляємо громаду українців перед народом та урядом Квебеку

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The Ukrainian Canadian internment was part of the confinement of “enemy aliens” in Canada during and for two years after the end of the First World War, lasting from 1914 to 1920, under the terms of the War Measures Act.

Canada was at war with Austria-Hungary and about 4,000 Ukrainian men and some women and children of Austro-Hungarian citizenship were kept in twenty-four internment camps and related work sites – also known, at the time, as concentration camps.[1] Their savings were confiscated until they were released. Almost all were “paroled” from camps in 1916–17 to become paid workers on farms, mines and railways, where labour was scarce. Another 80,000 were left at large but were registered as “enemy aliens” and obliged to regularly report to the police.

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