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Bill C-331, An Act to acknowledge that persons of Ukrainian origin were interned in Canada during the First World War and to provide for recognition of this event. PM Reaches out to Ukrainians – The Globe and Mail, August 25, 2005; Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund; Escape Attempt at Castle Mountain
Twenty-four known prisoner-of-war camps existed across Canada during the First World War. The ethnic groups arrested and detained in internment camps were Austro-Hungarians (mostly Ukrainians) and Germans. Austro-Hungarian Prisoners were mainly residents of Canada from Ukraine, part of Serbia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia.
In Fear of the Barbed Wire Fence: Canada's First National Internment Operations and the Ukrainian Canadians, 1914–1920. Kingston: Kashtan Press. ISBN 1-896354-22-X. Luciuk, Lubomyr Y. (2006). Without Just Cause: Canada's First National Internment Operations and the Ukrainian Canadians. Kingston, Ontario: Kashtan Press. ISBN 1-896354-40-8.
Most were placed by the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA) and its supporters. On August 24, 2005, Prime Minister Paul Martin recognized the Ukrainian Canadian internment as a "dark chapter" [29] in Canadian history, and pledged $2.5 million to fund memorials and educational exhibits [29] although that funding was never ...
The American-made F-16 is an iconic fighter jet that's been the front-line combat plane of choice for the NATO alliance and numerous air forces around the world for 50 years. Western countries ...
Primarily immigrant settlers of Ukrainian origin, they were sent to prisoner of war camps—most located in the Canadian hinterland—where they would work on government public projects as military conscript labour. Toward the end of the war however, the majority of internees were conditionally released to industry, the result of the growing ...
Mykhailo Samus, a Ukrainian military analyst and director of the New Geopolitics Research Network, assessed that Moscow would need two or three divisions, in the realm of 50,000 troops, to fully ...
The shipments include anti-armor and anti-aircraft missiles which could be used against Russian tanks and helicopters.