CANADA | Monday, 1 July 2013 | Views [490] | View Smaller Image
As I left a wonderful visit to the wonderland of Banff National Park (Canada), I was drawn to stop at a roadside monument. There, I learned I’d been traveling on a road partially built by what was essentially slave labor. The monument recognized the site of Castle Mountain Internment Camp, where more than 600 Ukrainian immigrants had been held under the War Measures Act (1914) as “enemy aliens,” simply because of their national origins in a time of war.
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