The Camps" is a cross-Canada journey into the past, present and future. In the fall of 2015, the crew of Armistice Films embarked upon an historical journey. Armed with professional cinema cameras, four film professionals set out to document the remains of all of the internment camps used during Canada's First National Internment Operations from 1914 to 1920. At the internment sites, the crew interviewed a variety of individuals who have either a direct or indirect tie to the Internment Operations. They interviewed several internee descendants, including those of Ukrainian, German and Hungarian descent. They interviewed scholars, political leaders, activists, an RCMP officer, the Chief of Brandon Police Services, The Chief of The Batchewana First Nation, Museum Curators, a former Park Warden and Sculptor John Boxtel. In "The Camps", we hear three languages English, French (including 2 fully Francophone episodes) and Ukrainian, and see equal representation of both men and women. ... They address the individual camp and how each interview subject is connected to the history the audience is learning about, and why it is still relevant today."--Ukrainian Canadian Congress website.
Contents
Season 1. Mara Lake ; Vernon ; Lethbridge ; Toronto ; Baton ; Morrissey ; Valcarter ; Mt. Revelstoke ; Yoho National Park ; Nanaimo ; Edgewood ; Amherst ; Petawawa ; Niagara Falls ; Munson ; Beauport -- Season 2. Ferme ; Sault Ste. Marie ; Kapuskasing ; Paul Grod ; Halifax ; Jasper ; Winnipeg ; Monashee ; Banff ; Castle Mountain ; Montreal ; Kingston ; Boxtel ; Inky Mark ; Andrew Hladyshevsky ; Spirit Lake.
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Feature Banff and Castle Mountain internment camps
Civilian Internment in Canada examines abuse of the civil rights and liberties of tens of thousands of Canadians and Canadian residents via internment from 1914 to the present day. This ongoing story spans both war and peacetime and has affected people from a wide variety of political backgrounds and ethno-cultural communities, bequeathing a complex legacy for survivors and their descendants. Despite the well-known impounding of tens of thousands of Japanese, Ukrainians, assorted eastern Europeans, Germans, and Italians as "enemy aliens" during the two World Wars, civilian internment in this country has not been widely discussed, particularly in comparative ways. Indeed, there has been a propensity to sweep these events under the proverbial rug, keeping them out of the national discourse. Civilian Internment in Canada brings together senior scholars in the field of internment and civil liberties studies with emerging scholars, graduate students, community members, teachers, public historians, artists, former internees, descendants of internees, and redress activists to examine the processes and consequences of civilian internment during real and perceived wartime contexts, ranging from the Great War to the Cold War to the "War on Terror." It demonstrates the ways in which "shared authority" between scholars and subjects can both reshape our understanding of crucial episodes in Canada's history and bring a sense of vibrancy and immediacy to the all-too current question of civil liberties and minority rights in today's security state. -- from back cover
Contents
The rule of law and human rights in the twenty-first century / Dennis Edney ; Human rights and the politics of freedom: civilian internment in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights / Jodi Giesbrecht ; Reinserting radicalism: Canada's first national internment operations, the Ukrainian left, and the politics of redress / Kassandra Luciuk ; Collateral damage: the defence of Canada regulations, civilian internement, ethnicity, and left-wing institutions / Jim Mochoruk ; An unprecedented dichotomy: impacts and consequences of Serbian internment in Canada during the Great War / Marinel Mandres ; The ex-minister and the fascist: a tale of two RCMP informants during the Second World War / Travis Tomchuk ; "Camp boys": privacy and the sexual self / Christine Whitehouse ; "Likely to be hampered and so she prepared for the worst": far left women and political incarceration during the Second World War / Rhonda L. Hinther ; Informal internment: Japanese Canadian farmers in southern Alberta, 1941-1945 / Aya Fujiwara ; Destroying the myth of quietism: strikes, riots, protest, and resistance in Japanese internment / Mikhail Bjorge ; Japanese Canadian internment: a personal account / Grace Eiko Thomson ; Anecdote and document: the internment experience of Rolf Schultze and Dorothy Caine / Clemence Schultze ; Ukrainian internment during the Second World War: the case of the Ukrainian Labour Farmer Temple Association and Peter Prokopchak / Myron Momryk ; The New Brunswick Internment Camp Museum: preserving the history of Internment Camp B-70 / Ed Caissie and Todd Caissie ; Exhibiting contentious topics: finding a place for the internment violin in the Canadian History Hall / Emily Cuggy and Kathleen Ogilvie ; Civilian internment and the impact of war: legacy and public history / Sharon Reilly ; The paradox of survival: Jewish refugees interned in Canada, 1940-1943 / Paula J. Draper ; Narrating internment, narrating Canada: wartime experiences of German merchant seamen / Judith Kestler ; A numbers game?: stories of suffering in Italian Canadian internment in the Second World War / Franca Iacovetta ; The internment of Japanese Canadians: a human rights violation / Art Miki
Presents the history of approximately 8,000 Canadians, who were imprisoned during the First World War because of their ethnic origins from Germany, Austria-Hungary and other enemy nations.
Contents
The uncertainty of war and the limits of acceptance: aliens of enemy Nationality -- Political choices and the prerogatives of state: dealing with the enemy alien problem -- Behind Canadian barbed wire: the policy, process, and practice of internment -- The alien as "enemy": questions of acceptance, belonging, and fit -- The enemy alien experience: towards an understanding.
Fonds consists of photographs pertaining to Placido Monachello and family; and a bound publication titled "Machinery's Handbook", 1943, which belonged to Placido. 12 photographs pertain to Placido's experiences at the Alternative Service Corps work camp at the Spray River Trail near Banff Springs H…
ca.172 photographs : b&w prints -- 3 digital files : col. JPG images -- 4 cm of textual records (1 volume)
History / Biographical
Placido Monachello (1920-2018) received a conscription notice to join the war effort between 1940-1941. Placido opposed the conscription notice, identifying himself as a Conscientious Objector who refused to participate in the war. After appealing his case in court, Placido was sentenced to one year of work in an internment/work camp. Placido completed his year of work at the Alternative Service Corps work camp, located near the Sunshine Road/Brewster Creek area (ASW Camp No. 1). While at the work camp, Placido aided in the clearing of land and road construction around Banff. Placido returned home to Hamilton, Ontario in 1942, where he worked odd jobs as a labourer and farm hand.
Placido married his partner, Leonarda "Leona" (Borsellino) Monachello (1920-2019) in 1944, with whom he later had two children, John and David. Placido sent numerous letters and photographs to Leona during his time at the ASW camp. While Placido was in Banff, Leona directly supported the war effort as an employee at Westinghouse in Hamilton, Ontario, where she produced high-tech military components. Placido and Leona ran two delicatessen businesses together after the war, one of which was initially funded by her parents. The couple sold their business in the 1970s, after which Placido worked for Stelco (a steel manufacturing company) until 1985. Placido and Leona took a trip to visit Banff together in 2010.
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Fonds consists of photographs pertaining to Placido Monachello and family; and a bound publication titled "Machinery's Handbook", 1943, which belonged to Placido. 12 photographs pertain to Placido's experiences at the Alternative Service Corps work camp at the Spray River Trail near Banff Springs Hotel (ASW Camp No. 1). ca.160 photographs pertain to Placido's family and personal life, including his wedding to Leonarda (Leona) in 1944 and their children [ca.1950s]. Fonds also includes 3 digital images of Placido and Leona visiting Banff in 2010.
File pertains to a photograph album depicting snapshots of prisoners of war and surroundings taken by Seargent William D. Buck of the Banff, Castle Mountain, and Kapuskasing, ON, internment camps during World War I.
Photograph album includes Banff and Kapuskasing River views; Castle and Banff inter…
William D. Buck, 1859-1922, was born in England and is thought to have served during the First World War with the 103 Calgary Rifles. Buck was a Sergeant at the Banff and Castle Mountain internment camps, ca.1915-1917, and appears to have accompanied prisoners to a camp at Kapuskasing, Ontario after closure of the Castle Mountain camp in 1917.
Scope & Content
File pertains to a photograph album depicting snapshots of prisoners of war and surroundings taken by Seargent William D. Buck of the Banff, Castle Mountain, and Kapuskasing, ON, internment camps during World War I.
Photograph album includes Banff and Kapuskasing River views; Castle and Banff internment camps views of prisoners, guards, facilities, activities, incidents and visit of Duke of Connaught and Princess Patricia; gathering of prisoners at Winnipeg and life at Kapuskasing internment camp; prisoners and Cave and Basin bathing, more Banff camp views and funeral photographs; family portraits, Banff and possible Calgary; and Sergeant Buck.
Consists of 199 numbered and captioned images, one un-numbered portrait on first page, as follows : Banff and area and Kapuskasing River views, 1 - 16 ; Castle and Banff Internment Camp views of prisoners, guards, activities, incidents and facilities, visit of Duke of Connaught and Princess Patricia, 17-88 ; gathering . . . in prisoners at Winnipeg and life at Kapuskasing, Ontario Internment Camp, 89-100 ; prisoners and Cave and Basin bathing, more Banff Camp views and funeral photographs, 101-118 ; family portraits, Banff and possibly Calgary, 119-148 ; published postcards of : Calgary Stampede, Banff and Calgary views, [Indigenous] portraits, 148-195 ; Sergeant Buck with dogs, 1919, 196-197. Span dates : ca.1915-1920 (actual date). Note: Two images are labelled #148.
Notes
Album also contains 47 published postcards of the Calgary Stampede, Banff and Calgary views, and Indigenous portraits that were not copied.
Attached individual images pertain solely to the Cave & Basin internment camp.
A squared glass bottle with long four-masted square-rigged sailing ship that is flying four jibs and a gaff-rigged mizzen on a turbulent sea before a small carved and painted town set on a hill complete with windmill and a railroad train entering a tunnel. The bottle has a black screw cap and “Eck…
A squared glass bottle with long four-masted square-rigged sailing ship that is flying four jibs and a gaff-rigged mizzen on a turbulent sea before a small carved and painted town set on a hill complete with windmill and a railroad train entering a tunnel. The bottle has a black screw cap and “Eckels” molded on one side (bottom) with a liquid level scale from 1 to 16 molded on the adjacent side (back).
Sandy Saito looks back to his childhood in 1940s Vancouver, when he was eight years old. He's a happy kid: he goes to school, reads comic books and is obsessed with baseball -- especially the Asahi baseball team, the pride of the Japanese-Canadian community. Then the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor -- and everything changes. The kids Sandy used to play with every day now call him names and chase him from the playground. He and his family are no longer permitted to go outside at night or visit certain areas of the city. Japanese-Canadians are stripped of their rights, their jobs and their homes, and soon the government begins to round up Japanese families, sending them to internment camps. It isn't long before Sandy's family is among them. The reader accompanies Sandy on his journey to the camp and the seasons that follow in this historically accurate portrayal of a grave chapter in both Canadian and American history. David Namisato's detailed art depicts the 1940s setting with cultural and historical precision, following Sandy and his family as they are forced to leave their home and relocate to a prison camp comprised of crowded, makeshift barracks in a remote site without electricity or running water. The theme of baseball, Sandy's favorite sport, runs through the story as a message of hope and renewal. -- Provided by publisher
"From 1914 to 1920, thousands of men who had immigrated to Canada from the Austro-Hungarian Empire were imprisoned as "enemy aliens," many with their families. Most were Ukrainians; almost all were civilians. The Stories Were Not Told presents this largely unrecognized event through photography, cultural theory, and personal testimony, including stories told at last by internees and their descendants. Semchuk describes how lives and society have been shaped by acts of legislated racism and how to move toward greater reconciliation, remembrance, and healing. This is necessary reading for anyone seeking to understand the cross-cultural and intergenerational consequences of Canada's first internment camps."-- Provided by publisher.
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Forward
Preface
Acknowledgements
Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund
Follows the story of Canada's first national internment operations between 1914 and 1920, when over 88,000 people were forced to register and more than 8,500 were wrongfully imprisoned in internment camps across Canada, not for anything they had done but because of where they came from. In 1954, the public records were destroyed.
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Director of photography, Oleksandr Kryshtalovych ; editor, Peter Chrapka ; music by Evan MacDonald.
