Ukrainian Canadian Community Honours YMCA For Aiding Internees

Samedi / Saturday, Septembre 29, 2007

The eighth annual conclave of the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA), was held this year in Montreal, Quebec, from Thursday, 27 September to 30 October.

Whereas the conclave deliberations are private, the public is invited to the unveiling of a trilingual bronze plaque recalling the
help offered to Ukrainian and other European internees by the YMCA's Military Service Department, under the direction of Mr FS Shepard. During Canada's first national internment operations of 1914-1920 YMCA educational and recreational services were provided to internees at the Fort Henry, Petawawa & Kapuskasing camps in Ontario, at the Spirit Lake in Quebec, at the Morrissey and Vernon camps in British Columbia and the camp in Amherst, Nova Scotia. It is likely that other camps were also visited by the YMCA's Internment Camp Work committee.

The plaque wass unveiled in North America's first YMCA, 1440 Stanley Street, Montreal, on Saturday, 29 September 2007, at 11 am.
The public is cordially invited to attend this event which will be followed by a reception and the launch of Marsha Skrypuch's
most recent
book, Prisoners in the Promised Land The Ukrainian Internment Diary of Anya Soloniuk (Scholastic Canada, 2007).

Source: http://uccla.ca/media.htm

The public was cordially invited to attend this event which was followed by a reception and the launch of Marsha Skrypuch's
most recent book,  "Prisoners in the Promised Land"  The Ukrainian Internment Diary of Anya Soloniuk
(Scholastic Canada, 2007).

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