Collective Voice: A country's road to tolerance

Grade 9 students in the Collective Voice program at Aden Bowman Collegiate share their lives and opinions through columns. Selected columns run each Monday in The Saskatoon StarPhoenix.
 
I am proudly Ukrainian Canadian. My great grandparents left Ukraine in 1905 to escape oppressive Austro-Hungarian rule. Through thick and thin, they managed to start a farm and build a life for themselves.
Not all Ukrainians were as fortunate.
The War Measures Act of 1914 deemed 5,000 Ukrainian Canadians s