Eaton internment camp memorial garden dedication

With the support of the Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund and SaskLotteries, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress of Saskatchewan, the Saskatchewan German Council, and the Prairie Centre for the Study of Ukrainian Heritage have partnered with the Saskatchewan Railway Museum to host the official dedication of the Eaton Internment Camp Memorial Garden on Friday, May 25, 2018 at 11 AM.

The public is invited to attend the dedication, which takes place on the site of the Eaton Internment Camp, located at the Saskatchewan Railway Museum on Highway 60, just outside of Saskatoon.

A permanent plaque and a park bench are being installed near the Eaton memorial (unveiled in September 2004) in order to provide visitors and museum patrons a place to learn about and reflect on a little-known chapter in Canadian history. During Canada’s First National Internment Operations of 1914-1920, thousands of Ukrainians and other Europeans were needlessly detained or imprisoned in camps throughout the country not because of any wrong they had committed, but because of where they had come from and who they were.

The event will also begin a year-long commemoration of the centenary of the Eaton Internment Camp (1919).