100 Plaques to be unveiled across Canada tomorrow!

Media Advisory

August 21, 2014

ONE HUNDRED PLAQUES TO BE UNVEILED ACROSS CANADA

COMMEMORATING THE CENTENARY OF

CANADA’S FIRST NATIONAL INTERNMENT OPERATIONS

OTTAWA – One hundred years ago, thousands of Ukrainians and other Eastern Europeans were declared “enemy aliens” by Canada and imprisoned in 24 internment camps across Canada. Their only crime was where they had come from and not because of anything they had done. Tomorrow, a hundred years later, 100 plaques will be unveiled across the country in memory of all victims of Canada’s First National Internment Operations.

Please join us as plaques are unveiled in communities across Canada at 11 a.m. (local time) on Friday, 22 August 2014, from Nova Scotia to British Columbia at locales associated with the Ukrainian, German, Hungarian, Serbian, Croatian, Armenian and other communities. 

What:             Plaque unveilings

When:             August 22, 2014, 11:00 a.m. (local time)

Where:           A complete list of commemorative sites is available at: http://www.uccla.ca/List_of_Plaque_sites.pdf 

For a map showing the locations of the CTO plaques across Canada: 

https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=znXlxCv9fsDc.kOCuZhvXG3qA 

More information is available on the CTO project at: www.ucc.ca.

UCC Media Contact:

The UCC National Office
Telephone: (613) 232 – 8822  
Email: ucc@ucc.ca
Website: www.ucc.ca

Пресовий референт Конґресу Українців Канади: 

Hаціональний офіс KYK 

телефон: (613) 232 – 8822 

електронна адреса: ucc@ucc.ca

інтернет-сторінка: www.ucc.ca