S3E9 Behind Barbed Wire: Ukrainian Internment during the First World War

Curious Canadian History · Jan 7, 2018 · 16m

When Canada went to war with the Central Powers in 1914 all of a sudden tens of thousands of Ukrainians who had come to Canada from the Austro-Hungarian Empire were deemed enemy aliens. Of these, several thousand were interned under the War Measures Act and forced to live in detention camps while performing manual labour. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.