Internment Camps

• ‘Shameful point in history’: New Calgary monument tells story of WWI internment camps

  Calgary's Ukrainian community unveils an exhibit marking Canada’s First World War internment operations

  Canada

  Jun 10, 2023
  
• Play tells story of Ukrainian immigrant’s escape from Banff internment camp

  Run Nawrocki Run! Escape from Banff Prison tells the story one of over 8,000 Eastern Europeans who were sent to internment camps during the First World War.

  Canada

  Jun 20, 2022
  
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• ‘Intangible losses’: B.C. announces $100M redress package for Japanese Canadians

  Beginning in 1942, nearly 22,000 Japanese Canadians were forced into internment camps under the War Measures Act, stripped of their houses, belongings and businesses.

  Politics

  May 21, 2022
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• Trudeau apologizes to Italian Canadians for WW2 internment camps

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has delivered a formal apology for the internment of Canadians of Italian descent during the Second World War.

  Canada

  May 27, 2021
• Trudeau government set to apologize to Italian Canadians for war internment

  Albertans are responding to the federal government's plan to apologize to Italian Canadians arrested in Canada during WW2.

  Canada

  May 26, 2021
• Remembering the ‘bittersweet’ legacy of Canada’s wartime Jewish and Italian internment camps

  Canadian authorities had thought they would be receiving prisoners categorized as "dangerous enemy aliens," and had not realized they would be mixed with ordinary citizens or even refugees fleeing Nazi persecution.

  Canada

  Nov 10, 2020
• Vernon’s war internment history remembered in documentary

  "It's about owning your history and telling it so it is not going to happen again."

  Canada

  Feb 27, 2018
• WATCH: Vernon’s internment history remembered

  A tragic era in Canadian and Okanagan history was back in the spotlight Friday.

  Aug 23, 2014