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Peter I (2732 words) |
 | Hungarian Jews generally thought themselves to be of Hungarian ethnic origin from the Jewish faith. |
| The CJC refused to work with the Canadian Jewish-Hungarians because they considered them to be well-meaning Marx-brother types, naive dupes and upstart declassé merchants who were trying to regain their old-country respectability. |
| They refused to make a major effort because they considered the Canadian government financially responsible for the delivery and integration of the refugees and because of their resentment of the non-religious ideological stance of the majority of the Hungarians. |
| UCC Press Release: 2000-10-14 - INTERNMENT OF UKRAINIAN CANADIANS DURING WORLD WAR I (539 words) |
| The government took the view that this threat required that these particular persons, who were in many cases Canadian citizens, ought to be interned and held in camps for the duration of the war. |
| Accordingly, about 5,000 Ukrainian Canadians were in fact interned by the federal government in 26 camps that were located across Canada. |
| In January 1915 the British foreign office informed the federal government that Ukrainian Canadians should be treated as friendly aliens. |
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