Interesting:
OTTAWA ACKNOWLEDGES WARTIME IMPACT ON ITALIAN CANADIANS
Prime Minister Paul Martin has announced his government will spend $2.5 million to tell the story of Italian Canadians affected by Ottawa's wartime measures.
FULL STORY:
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/11/12/war-redress051112.html
My grandparents on my dad's side were from Austria, and were also labelled "enemy aliens." However, they weren't imprisoned. They merely had to report to the RCMP on a regular basis. I wonder if that's because they were Austrian rather than Italian? Or perhaps because they were farmers... and working the land was more important? I'm guessing the reason why the story focusses on Italian Canadians is because that's the group that complained... but it would be nice if the *whole* story were told, not just the groups that complained.
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