In Fear of the Barbed Wire Fence: Canada's First National Internment Operations and the Ukrainian Canadians, 1914-1920 - Luciuk, Lubomyr

Clean, tight, unmarked; 3 cm closed tear to back cover; damp handling to bottom inside corner and inside edge of last several pages; otherwise spine straight and uncreased; very minimal wear; This is a completely revised and substantially expanded version of Lubomyr Luciuk's earlier A Time for Atonement. It describes an episode in Canadian history that is now familiar to many through the documentary film Freedom Had a Price. In the years preceding World War I, some 170,000 people came to Canada. Between 1914 and 1920, many of those who arrived were among the 8579 "enemy aliens" interned by the Canadian government in concentration camps. Professor Luciuk documents the entire episode through extensive use of extracts from newspapers and government documents, evocative photographs, maps, and illustrations. The xenophobic, sometimes hysterical commentaries in the English press provide insight into the atmosphere in which events unfolded: demands that Canada should be "white" from shore to shore, that interned "aliens" should be shipped home in cattle cars, that a two-months-old baby born of "Austrian parents" be denied civic assistance at a hospital, and so on. In fact, more than half the book consists of source materials and footnotes. The 1921 Report on Internment Operations is included, as are relevant House of Commons debates and official correspondence.
Very Good
Paperback
Kashtan Press
2001
Canada