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Informationen zum Autor Bohdan S. Kordan is professor emeritus in the Department of Political Studies at St Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, and the co-author of Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Some eight thousand immigrant-settlers of "enemy" nationality - so called enemy aliens - were interned as civilian prisoners of war in Canada during World War I. This title assesses policy and practice of civilian internment in Canada during the Great War and provides a critical statement about the complex and troubling nature of this experience.
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Bohdan S. Kordan is professor emeritus in the Department of Political Studies at St Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, and the co-author of Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis.
