1/8/2015 11:47:22 am
My opinion on the internment of the Ukrainian Canadians is negative. In my opinions and many facts which that I have provided below show the reasoning behind my thesis which is negative. I believe that the internment of Ukrainian Canadians was negative because interning them didn’t help us in the long run. Yes some people may say “without internment camps our railways & etc. wouldn’t have been build, and we would have had to pay white men more money to do it and the government didn’t have that much money” But if they have charged more for everyday things that people needed to survive, they would have made more money to hire those “white” men. The internees were beaten, shot, worked until they were bleeding, broken, or dead, lost all possessions, taken without reason, and hurt families. Coming from a religious perspective I know that God doesn’t want that. Those people that died out there, lived in those camps, and didn’t deserve it. If you see in an excerpt form a report in a camp from a primary source that there were many insane asylums, because of the confinement and restrictions entailed. Many got sick with tuberculosis and pneumonia (aka Spanish flu). In 1918 there was a final count that 26 prisoners died because of sickness, and 6 died trying to escape. And even when the ware none of the Ukrainian Canadians got any property or belongings back from the government. The perceptions at the Canadian government after the fact was very negative. Our government started taking Ukrainian Canadians without reason in 1915 whenever they would see one and because of that Canadian families began to get scared if their fathers were going to get taken away also. But what surprises, even as a Canadian myself, is how the government and the military treated the Ukrainian Canadians. We paraded the streets, chanting, yelling holding big signs “Deport the Aliens”, “ We support our governments decisions” on the streets of Winnipeg of June 4 of 1919, All of Canada was parading the streets, exclaiming that it was ok, and we should torture, and not care about the Ukrainian Canadians. After this went on, the attitudes towards the Canadian government weren’t good at all. They didn’t respect the government after the camps had ended, and the Ukrainian Canadians didn’t get any of their stuff back, important belongings, land, anything. The Ukrainian Canadians were upset for generations and still some are. It was not fair, because people think of Canada as nice, and polite, but the way we treated the Ukrainian Canadians so unfairly, we were racist, ethnocentric, and bias. As for the after fact of many generations after, it was also negative. The Canadian government didn’t apologize to Ukrainian Canadians until November 25, 2005 and was given Royal Assent of Bill C-337 'Internment of Persons of Ukrainian Origin Recognition Act' which was 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. Right after the war tons were deported to Europe – This was also call the “Red Scare” Many had the fear of communism, so they stayed and worked until 1920. Some Ukrainian Canadians are still under handicapped from a result of World War 1 – From experiences. Thought to be the last known survivor of the internment measures – Mary Manko Haskett – was only a child of 6 when she was interned with her family at Spirit Lake. She died in July 2007. In 2007 another survivor – Mary Hancharuk, born in the Spirit Lake camp – was 92 – making her the last known survivor of the internment camps. She died in 2008. From then there has been to survivors to be found. From all of the research that I have done, and what I have shown here; my statement, bias, believes are what I think of the Internment of the Ukrainian Canadians.
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