Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund – January Update

2010 Annual Report

The 2010 Annual Report of the Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund

is available online. Go to www.internmentcanada.ca to view. To request a hard copy

please contact the Program Manager.

The Endowment Council of the Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund

announces its first annual Poster Challenge contest that involves four selected ethnocultural

schools from the Ukrainian, Croatian, Serbian and Hungarian communities. This

year’s Poster Challenge Theme is “Acknowledging the Internment.” The idea is to

engage students aged 11 to 15 in developing artwork around the Government’s

recognition of what was done to the peoples who were interned, to their families and

communities. The winning poster will be announced on February 15th with a cash prize of

$550.00 awarded to the winning school.

“What’s in your Trunk?” is the theme of a national advertisement campaign launched on

December 9th in the Petawawa Post and Kapuskasing Northern Times. It continues to run

in the 24 communities where internment camps existed on their respective internment

camp opening dates. The campaign concludes on October 13th with the Saskatoon Star

Phoenix. The Endowment Council is interested in locating artifacts from the First World

War internment operations of 1914 to 1920.

The Endowment Council is currently seeking three representatives from affected

communities for positions on the Council beginning July 2011. The work of the

CFWWIRF is overseen by the Endowment Council comprised of seven members and an

internee descendant representative. To ensure appropriate representation on the

Endowment Council, we encourage organizations that represent the affected communities

to nominate individuals who are knowledgeable about this period in Canada’s history.

The submitted names will be considered as potential candidates for Endowment Council

appointments. We invite all affected community groups or individuals to submit names

along with their resumes by April 1, 2011.