Stories Were Not Told: Canada's First World War Internment Camps

During WWI, thousands of men from various European countries were unjustly imprisoned in Canada as "enemy aliens." The Stories Were Not Told is a book that presents this largely unrecognized event through photography, cultural theory, and personal testimony, including stories told by internees and their descendants. It explores how acts of legislated discrimination have shaped lives and society and how to move toward greater reconciliation, remembrance, and healing.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 312 pages
\n Publication date: 11 December 2018
\n Publisher: University of Alberta Press
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Between 1914 and 1920, thousands of men who had immigrated to Canada from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire were unjustly imprisoned as "enemy aliens," some with their families. Many communities in Canada where internees originated do not know these stories of Ukrainians, Germans, Bulgarians, Croats, Czechs, Hungarians, Italians, Jews, Alevi Kurds, Armenians, Ottoman Turks, Poles, Romanians, Russians, Serbians, Slovaks, and Slovenes, amongst others. While most internees were Ukrainians, almost all were civilians.

The Stories Were Not Told presents this largely unrecognized event through photography, cultural theory, and personal testimony, including stories told at last by internees and their descendants. Semchuk describes how lives and society have been shaped by acts of legislated discrimination and how to move toward greater reconciliation, remembrance, and healing. This is necessary reading for anyone seeking to understand the cross-cultural and intergenerational consequences of Canada's first national internment operations.

Foreword by Jen Budney.

\n Weight: 952g\n
Dimension: 234 x 235 x 16 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781772123784\n \n