Concentration and internment camps were built in Canada to imprison anyone associated to a country that Canada was at war with during WW1, these residents of Canada were considered “enemy aliens”. The law passed by the Canadian Government to support this action was called the “Federal War Measures Act”, also referred to as the “WMA”, and was passed in August, 1914. Most of the prisoners were Ukrainian Canadian men, this was because Canada was at war with the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Russia. Both of these nations were at war to claim Ukraine as a segment of their own country, and were enemies of The British Empire. By the end of WW1, approximately five-thousand Ukrainian Canadians were taken to concentration camps out of approximately eight-thousand
