Focusing on the difficulties the government faced in trying to reconcile moral imperatives and political interest, Kordan provides an innovative interpretation of government policy toward Ukrainian Canadians. Drawing extensively on Canadian, British, American, and Soviet archival material, he highlights the connection between the government's foreign and domestic concerns and the implications of each for Canadian nation building. Meticulously researched and richly detailed, Canada and the Ukrainian Question, 1939-1945 offers a clear but critical statement about Canada's uneven approach to ethnic integration and policy making. It will be of interest to historians as well as those interested in foreign policy.

Canada and the Ukrainian Question, 1939-1945 (Volume 36) (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History)

History

Kordan, Bohdan S.

Americas

McGill-Queen's University Press

Canada and the Ukrainian Question, 1939-1945 (McGill-Queen’s Studies in Ethnic History) (Volume 36)

Focusing on these and other thematic issues, Bohdan Kordan assesses the policy and practice of civilian internment in Canada during the Great War and provides a clear yet critical statement about the complex and troubling nature of this experience. Period photographs and first person accounts augment the text, helping to communicate not only the layered and textured character of the experience but the human drama of the story as well. A comprehensive roster identifying those interned in the frontier camps of the Rocky Mountains is also included.

Enemy Aliens, Prisoners of War: Internment in Canada during the Great War (Volume 41) (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History)

A Bare and Impolitic Right: Internment and Ukrainian-Canadian Redress

When must a current government attempt to come to terms with the wrongs of governments long past? In A Bare and Impolitic Right Bohdan Kordan and Craig Mahovsky examine the internment of Ukrainian Canadians during the Great War, and explore the political, philosophical, and ethical dimensions of redress. Situating the campaign for Ukrainian-Canadian redress within a wider discussion on political leadership and transitional justice, the authors argue that, by reaffirming the values that are central to a rule-based society, symbolic redress might not only play an important role in reconciling the past with present and future generations, but also aid the country to reconnect with those foundational traditions that inform Canadian political culture.

Mahovsky, Craig

When must a current government attempt to come to terms with the wrongs of governments long past? In A Bare and Impolitic Right Bohdan Kordan and Craig Mahovsky examine the internment of Ukrainian Canadians during the Great War and explore the political, philosophical, and ethical dimensions of redress. Situating the campaign for Ukrainian-Canadian redress within a wider discussion on political leadership and transitional justice, the authors argue that, by reaffirming the values that are central to a rule-based society, symbolic redress might not only play an important role in reconciling the past with present and future generations but also aid the country to reconnect with those foundational traditions that inform Canadian political culture.

Approximately 8,000 Canadian civilians were imprisoned during the First World War because of their ethnic ties to Germany, Austria-Hungary, and other enemy nations. Although not as well-known as the later internments of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War, these incarcerations played a crucial role in shaping debates about Canadian citizenship, diversity, and loyalty. Tracing the evolution and consequences of Canadian government policy towards immigrants of enemy nationality, No Free Man is a nuanced work that acknowledges both the challenges faced by the Government of Canada as well as the experiences of internees and their families. Bohdan Kordan gives particular attention to the ways in which the political and legal status of enemy subjects configured the policy and practice of internment and how this process ? magnified by the challenges of the war ? affected the broader concerns of public order and national security. Placing the issue of internment within the wider context of community and belonging, Kordan further delves into the ways that wartime turbulence and anxieties shaped public attitudes towards the treatment of enemy aliens. He concludes that Canada?s leadership failed to protect immigrants of enemy origin during a period of intense suspicion, conflict, and crisis. Framed by questions about government rights, responsibilities, and obligations, and based on extensive archival research, No Free Man provides a systematic and thoughtful account of Canadian government policy towards enemy aliens during the First World War.

No Free Man: Canada, the Great War, and the Enemy Alien Experience (Volume 2) (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History)

Strategic Friends: Canada-Ukraine Relations from Independence to the Euromaidan (McGill-Queen’s Studies in Ethnic History) (Volume 2)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Since the end of the Soviet Union, Canada has played a leading role in the international response to Ukraine and to the challenges associated with its transition to independence. As Conservative and Liberal governments alike have sought to adapt foreign policy to contend with uncertainty and upheaval, the relationship between Canada and Ukraine has remained resilient. In Strategic Friends Bohdan Kordan examines the intersections between global developments and Canada's evolving foreign policy in light of national interests, domestic factors, and political agency. His historical-comparative narrative follows the post-Cold War aspirations and ambitions of the Mulroney, Chrétien, Martin, and Harper governments as they worked to minimize conflict, increase security, contextualize the independence movement, manage bilateral relations, and promote election monitoring, as well as defend liberal democracy and the territorial integrity of Ukraine. Consulting media reports, official speeches, statements, published government documents, and archives of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Kordan highlights both continuities and shifts in policy during the leadership of four prime ministers, and reveals the undercurrents of contemporary Canadian foreign affairs. Investigating the progression of the Canada?Ukraine relationship, Strategic Friends queries the dynamics that have shaped Canada's foreign policy response in an age of change.

Strategic Friends: Canada-Ukraine Relations from Independence to the Euromaidan (Volume 247) (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History)

Book by Luciuk, Lubomyr K., Kordan, Bohdan S.

Creating a Landscape: A Geography of Ukrainians in Canada

Luciuk, Lubomyr K.

Social Sciences

Univ of Toronto Pr

It is a little-known fact that during the First World War and in the immediate postwar period (1914-1920), Canadian Internment Operations imprisoned more than 8,000 individuals. The majority of those interned were civilian non-combatants, Ukrainians and other immigrants who had come to Canada from the Austro-Hungarian Empire to work in industry or to settle on western homesteads. Twenty-four receiving stations and internment camps were established across Canada. A camp at Banff/Castle Mountain operated between 1915 and 1917. More than 600 internees were put to work on various projects in Rocky Mountain Park (now Banff National Park), which was being developed at that time as Canada's first national park. The diary of the Banff/Castle Mountain camp provides detailed insight into the practice of Canada's internment policy during the First World War and reveals a unique episode in the human history of Canada's national park system.

In the Shadow of the Rockies: Diary of the Castle Mountain Internment Camp 1915-1917

Melnycky, Peter

CIUS Press

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Canada and the Ukrainian Question, 1939-1945 (Volume 36) (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History)

Canada and the Ukrainian Question, 1939-1945 (McGill-Queen’s Studies in Ethnic History) (Volume 36)

Enemy Aliens, Prisoners of War: Internment in Canada during the Great War (Volume 41) (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History)

A Bare and Impolitic Right: Internment and Ukrainian-Canadian Redress

A Bare and Impolitic Right: Internment and Ukrainian-Canadian Redress

No Free Man: Canada, the Great War, and the Enemy Alien Experience (Volume 2) (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History)

Strategic Friends: Canada-Ukraine Relations from Independence to the Euromaidan (McGill-Queen’s Studies in Ethnic History) (Volume 2)

Strategic Friends: Canada-Ukraine Relations from Independence to the Euromaidan (Volume 247) (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History)

Creating a Landscape: A Geography of Ukrainians in Canada

In the Shadow of the Rockies: Diary of the Castle Mountain Internment Camp 1915-1917