Canada was not always the paragon of acceptance and inclusiveness that we like to think of ourselves as now. We had our own version of the chinese head tax, and turned away an entire boat load of British citizens for the simple fact that they were Sheik.
The internment of Japanese born american and Canadian citizens is well known from world war 2, but there is another internment that happened in Canada, and it is less well known. Simply because the survivors refuse to talk about it.
I am referring to the internment of Ukrainians during the first world war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_ ... internment
We took a large number of hearty cold adapted, allies and shipped them into the rockies to work on labour projects of an unknown nature. Before the term became polluted by the second world war, these were called 'Concentration Camps'. Over 100 individuals died and several went insane and/or committed suicide while in these camps.
The camps continued until a full TWO YEARS AFTER the war had ended.
Just what was the Canadian government doing with these individuals in the shadows of the rockies.
Why intern allies, and more so why keep them a full two years after the war had ended?
Death, madness and strange goings on that people refuse to speak about (including my own Ukrainian descended grandmother). This way the Mythos lies.
PH.D candidate -M.U. Western Annex
