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Eaton Saskatchewan Internment Memorial Project

Help commemorate the Eaton Internment Camp, an important historic site where civilian immigrants were interned during World War I. Donate to support the construction of a permanent memorial.

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Eaton Saskatchewan Internment Memorial Project

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  1. A project to commemorate the Eaton Internment Camp A Historic Site An Initiative of the Prairie Centre for the Study of Ukrainian Heritage St Thomas More College in association with the Ukrainian Community of Saskatchewan Eaton Saskatchewan Internment Memorial Project

  2. The Eaton Internment Camp: Historical Context Between the years 1914-1920, under the provisions of the War Measures Act, 8,579 civilian immigrants of enemy alien origin – former nationals of countries at war with Canada – were interned as prisoners of war. The majority of the internment camps were located on the Canadian frontier where the internees were used as military conscript labour on a variety of federal and provincial public work projects as well as in private industry, notably the railway companies.

  3. The Eaton Internment Camp: Historical Context In October 1918, sixty-five inmates of the Morrissey Internment Camp (Fernie, British Columbia) were relocated to a special holding facility created at Munson, Alberta where they would repair and lay new track on the Goose Lake Line. The Spanish Influenza and a subsequent train wreck forced the relocation of the Munson camp to the railway siding at Eaton, Saskatchewan in early March 1919. Disciplinary problems forced the Eaton camp to be abandoned in favour of more secure facilities at Amherst, Nova Scotia to which the prisoners were transferred by the end of March 1919.

  4. Significance of the Eaton Internment Camp as a Historic Site and the Importance of Memorialization The Eaton Internment Camp was one of only 26 camps created as places of internment during World War I for civilian enemy prisoners of war.  It was the only facility of its kind in Saskatchewan and therefore constitutes an important provincial historic site.  A memorial will serve as an acknowledgement of this important yet unfortunate episode in the story of Canadian nationbuilding and the difficulties associated with immigrant integration.   A memorial will serve to highlight this important chapter in the history of the Ukrainian Canadian community.  A memorial will convey an important statement about human and civil rights.

  5. The Eaton Memorial Project The Eaton Internment Memorial Project is part of he PCUH’s Historic Sites Programme whichseeks to memorialize those events and places that are of historical importance to both the Ukrainian Canadian community and the people of Saskatchewan.  The Eaton Internment Memorial Project will support the commissioning and construction of a permanent memorial that will identify the site as a place of internment while commemorating the historical significance of the experience. The monument will be a bronze and granite monument sculpted by the nationally acclaimed artist Grant McConnell. The Saskatchewan Railway Museum, a heritage and educational facility devoted to preserving Saskatchewan’s railway history, has partnered with the PCUH in providing a suitable location for the Eaton Internment Memorial on site. The monument is scheduled to be unveiled in Fall, 2003.

  6. Help Us Remember Our History A donation to the Eaton Internment Memorial Project will ensure that a monument commemorating this episode in Canadian history will be placed on the grounds of the original internment camp, now the site of the Saskatchewan Railway Museum. The projected cost of the monument is $26,000. Donors who make a contribution of $500 or more (PCUH Founding Historic Sites Member) will receive a limited edition bronze medallion specially struck for the occasion. Public recognition of all donations will be made at the official unveiling of the monument and acknowledged through the PCUH donor recognition programme. Tax receipts will be issued for all donations. • .

  7. Major Contributors to the Eaton Memorial Project • Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko • Ukrainian Canadian Congress – Saskatoon Branch • Victor Buyniak • William Gulka • Morris and Anna Korpan • Bohdan and Danya Kordan • SS Peter and Paul Church - Senior Citizens • Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saskatoon • Ukrainian Catholic Brotherhood of Canada – Bishop Roberecki Branch # 304 • Ed and Evelyn Wojcichowsky • Stephen and Michelene Worobetz

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