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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Nor have I, I know that we had prisoner of war camps and put the prisoners to work doing farm harvesting and other things. but I don't remember interment of Germans and Italians.
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It wasn't as full-blown as the Japanese or Ukranians... but there were many Italian and German Canadians held without cause in WW2, many of these people were sent with the POWs or to prisons. I think the CBC made a movie about one such family, not sure how based in fact it was, I never saw it.
However, in WW1 it was full-blown internment camps for Germans and Austro-Hungarians. Only the Ukranians have received notice, and it was pretty pathetic notice, nothing has been done since the recognition bill passed in 2005. That bill was not an apology, just how to recognize and "use" the experience for educational purposes.