"I promised their story would be told," says chronicler of internment

From: The Ukrainian Weekly | Date: May 15, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

Fran Ponomarenko
Ukrainian Weekly, The
05-15-1994
"I promised their story would be told," says chronicler of internment. operation

What brought you to the idea of doing a film on the Internment Operations?

This project has been on my mind since 1974 when I stumbled on information about the existence of internment camps during World War I. I'd heard about Spirit Lake Internment Camp in Quebec and, although I tried in earnest to find it on contemporary maps, I couldn't. So I approached a cartographer in Quebec City who helped me out. Spirit Lake turned out to be 8 kilometers from Amos. Later the ...

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