The film Oh Canada! Oh Canada! memorializes Canada’s 1914-1920 first national internment operations, where thousands of men, women and children were imprisoned. The government’s operations were political and intentional; an assault on several ethnocultural communities as part of Canada’s War Measures Act that required the imprisonment of nearly 9,000 Canadian residents who were “aliens of enemy nationality” because of their country of origin.
The Government of Canada established the Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund 9 May 2008, to support commemorative and educational initiatives that recall what happened during Canada’s first national internment operations of 1914-1920.
This film has been made possible by a grant from the Endowment Council of the Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund.
Funded by the Canada First World War Internment Recognition Fund
