HIST 325 Lecture : hist 325-1.docx
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Review: enemy aliens : canada, wwi (aug 1914-nov 1918) Fear and retaliation: fear of germans: rumours of german invasions from large german-american population, us did not enter war until april 1917, berlin, ontario becomes kitchner (named after war hero from boer war); history rewritten. War measures act 1914-1988: passed and enacted within a few weeks of declaration of wwi; in effect until. Internment: 24 camps across canada (1914-1920): forced labour; for enemy aliens, for seriously contravening regulations, and for other citizens deemed security threats (political radicals), or for acting in a very suspicious manner or for being undesirable . 9000 in total: by the middle of 1915, 4000 of the internees had been imprisoned simply for being indigent (poor and unemployed) largest group interned (4000) were ukrainian enemy aliens, only c. 2000 internees were obvious security risks. The devastation of halifax in wartime, 1917 the facts: u-tube video.
