"I can never forget what was done to my family and me. We were innocent and yet we were treated as enemy aliens. Worse, perhaps, the country forgot about what was done to us.”
"...rights as a Canadian were violated. I hope it won't happen again against other minorities like Muslims. We shouldn't be rounding up and imprisoning people for no good reason."
We will never fully understand Enemy Aliens and what happened to the 8,579 people who were in internment camps during world war 1, this is not our story to tell, it was not our families who were pushed into internment, it was theirs; and as we continue on throughout history and look back upon other times when countries dealt with this type of force. Our present time is following these actions;
"...rights as a Canadian were violated. I hope it won't happen again against other minorities like Muslims. We shouldn't be rounding up and imprisoning people for no good reason."
We will never fully understand Enemy Aliens and what happened to the 8,579 people who were in internment camps during world war 1, this is not our story to tell, it was not our families who were pushed into internment, it was theirs; and as we continue on throughout history and look back upon other times when countries dealt with this type of force. Our present time is following these actions;