Canadian WW1 internment operations marked by new Calgarian Ukrainian monument

A memorial exhibit marking a dark chapter of Canada’s First World War involvement was unveiled in Calgary Saturday.  An interpretive panel dedicated to remembering internment operations was installed in the Ukrainian Pioneers Park in the northeast.  It's a way to commemorate a sad, largely forgotten point in Canadian history when the country invoked the War Measures Act.  That decision led to the government imprisoning more than 8,000 European immigrants -- mostly Ukrainians