Parks Canada and UCCLA to honor internees

KINGSTON, Ontario - Parks Canada and the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA) will unveil four interpretive panels at the Natural Bridge Area, Field, British Columbia, on Saturday, June 23, at 1 p.m.

These four panels explain the history of Camp Otter, one of 24 internment camps in which thousands of Ukrainian and European Canadians were unjustly imprisoned as "enemy aliens" during World War I.

Camp Otter is of special significance because it was named after Maj. Gen. William D. Otter, the administrator of internment operations in Canada during the first world war.

Since 1994 the UCCLA has placed 15 commemorative plaques and two statues at internment sites across the country.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, June 17, 2001, No. 24, Vol. LXIX

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