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People or Aliens?

Published on Nov 18, 2015

Ukrainian Internment

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

People or Aliens?

The Ukrainian Internment in Canada

How it all started

ENEMY Aliens

The camps

Life in the camps

  • 8-13 hours of hard labour \
  • Paid 0.25 cents a day
  • many became sick with tuberculosis and pnemonia from contaminated drinking water
  • Living conditions were very crowded/no privacy

hOW MAY PEOPLE DIed?

  • 6 PEOPLE were shot by camps guards while trying to escape
  • 108 died from disease and harsh temperatures during the winter months

How long did it last for?

In the end

Memorials

  • a PLAQUE AND STATUE OF A UKRIANIAN IMMIGRANT MARK THE 1915 CASTLE MOUNTAIN INTERNMENT CAMP NEAR LAKE LOUISE