![]() ![]() ![]() Of internment operations, 3,138 detainees were actual prisoners of war - meaning they had been captured or were enemy reserves. According to Sir William Dillon Otter, who was in charge Of the total number interned,ĥ,954 were of Austro-Hungarian origin, including Croats, Ruthenians, Slovaks,Ĭzechs and Ukrainians 2,009 were German Ģ05 were Turks and 99 were Bulgarians. Over the course of the war, the federal government interned 8,579 enemy aliens in 24 receiving stations and internment camps across the country. Were forced to register as enemy aliens, to carry identity papers and to report regularly to the police. ( See Internment in Canada.) Another 80,000 people, mostly Ukrainian Canadians, Thousands of civilians were interned under the authority of the War Measures Act when the government labelled them “enemy aliens.” ( See also Prisoner of War Camps in Canada.) Most internees were recent immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian, German and Ottoman empires. ![]() Internment of “Enemy Aliens” During the First World War Internees being marched off to dinner at the Petawawa internment camp during the First World War. People were also arrested and interned for their political beliefs. Membership in left-leaning or pacifist organizations was forbidden. Following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917, socialist reading materials As a result, the Act was used toīan 253 publications, including 222 American, 164 foreign-language and 89 leftist publications. Trade and manufacturing and to seize private property. To arrest, detain and deport people without charges or trials to control transportation, The Act gave the government full authority during wartime to censor and suppress communications The Act allowed Cabinet to bypass the House of Commons and the Senate and to govern by order-in-council (decree) when it perceived the existence of “war, invasion or insurrection, real or apprehended.” The Act was in force from 4 August 1914 to 10 January 1920 - the official date of the end of the war with Germany. First World WarĪt the beginning of the First World War, the Canadian government quickly passed the War Measures Act,Ī law that gave sweeping emergency powers to the federal Cabinet. Soldier and child, 18 October 1970, during the October Crisis. ![]()
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