POW's are only part of the history. The camp was originally an internment camp. That means that it wasn't soldiers imprisoned there. It was people living in Canada who happened to be of the same race as the country that we were at war with and were caught doing something as horrible as trying to cross into the US to find work.
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POW's are only part of the history. The camp was originally an internment camp. That means that it wasn't soldiers imprisoned there. It was people living in Canada who happened to be of the same race as the country that we were at war with and were caught doing something as horrible as trying to cross into the US to find work.
Ukrainian Internment in Canada
it wasn't a POW camp.
In 1891 Ukrainians from Western Ukraine began a historic group migration to Canada. Over 170,000 chose Canada as their new homeland, on the government's offer of free land and promise of freedom. These were pioneers and nation builders who settled the vast unsettled prairies of Canada.
But soon after their arrival, a tragedy struck the community. With the beginning of the First World War, the Ukrainian Canadians were stigmatized with the label of "enemy aliens" and humiliated by the Government of Sir Robert Borden. Over 80,000 were classified enemy aliens, disenfranchised and almost 6,000 imprisoned in 26 internment camps throughout Canada. After their arrest by the police, they were kept in jails with common criminals pending transfer to one of the camps. Their property was confiscated, and in many cases, never returned. In Banff National Park, they built the roads and the golf course. In British Columbia they built rights-of-way for the railway and bridges. In Kapuskasing Internment Camp the drinking water they drank was contaminated, causing many to become ill with long lasting after affects. In Spirit Lake, Quebec, some died from extreme cold.
The land around the reserves is crown land so they can't log it without permission from the government.
Which is not anywhere near the same as saying they can't log it.
All it takes is a letter from the local foresty office.
Letter? Yeah right. All they need is a chainsaw, a 300+ year old tree and BAM, they're in the cedar shake business.
My understanding is that logging rights are a bit more complicated than just calling someone up and having them send you a letter.
I bet the trees are close to that age. Just don't grow very well.
That depends entirely on where you are since it is a provincial area. In BC as of 10 years ago you could do just that for your own use. Worked the same for bands as well. I don't know if it is still in the regs today. It was called a free use permit.
I see that on the BC site. On the Ontario site, all it says is that each resident can cut one Christmas tree from crown land, otherwise it just says it is illegal without a permit. It doesn't talk about the process other than calling a ministry office.
Why would Attawaspikat have 300 year old spruce and why is it hard for them to grow?
Does it define the size of a christmas tree? If you have 5 or 6 kids you got enough trees to build a house.
Lol, lets be realistic here. We are talking about operating a saw mill, so they need a very sizable amount of trees to make that worthwhile.
This is too much...
That you find scandalous what Canadians did to the Ukrainians that long ago, but what whitey did to the Injuns, and treaties not being honored by the government is OK to you......I could find the posts where you rant about it, but you're not worth the effort.
I could call you disingenuous, but hypocrite is a better word.
Lol, what?
When did I ever say that the government's treatment of first nations people was ok? You must be thinking of someone else. I am definitely not ok with how the government has treated first nations people, in the past and in the present.
A government can be criticized for more than one thing. Putting people into interment camps because of their ethnicity is wrong, even if "not many" of them died because of it.
Why exactly? Plenty of farmers run saw mills with whatever they or their neighbours have on hand for trees. It's not about being 'worthwhile' it's about being self sufficient.
Turning a few logs into lumber isn't going to make anyone self sufficient.
Any plan has to make economic sense. Setting up a sawmill on a remote reserve will cost a significant amount of money. If they can't get enough logs to process, it will just be wasted money, which certainly doesn't move them any closer to self sufficiency.
Sorry, my bad, got you mixed up with another poster....my sincere apologies for that one.
Once again, plenty of farmers have sawmills, and it's perfectly affordable.
I had to go read back and check that I was right that he wasn't 'BruSan'.... the layout of the names mixes them up.