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Dr. Bohdan Kordan | No Place Like Home

Ended Oct 23 / 2025

Time 7pm - 9pm

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  • Book Launch

Join us at the Ukrainian Museum of Canada as we proudly host the Saskatoon book launch of No Place Like Home: Enemy Alien Internment in Canada during the Great War by Prof. Bohdan Kordan. Through a series of essays, this book thoughtfully explores a long-forgotten episode in Canada’s past – the internment of immigrant civilians as prisoners of war in twenty-four camps across the country during WWI.

The launch is funded by the Shevchenko Foundation and McGill-Queens University Press and supported by the Prairie Centre for the Study of Ukrainian Heritage and the Ukrainian Canadian Congress – Saskatoon Branch.

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The book examines the evolution and consequences of Canadian government policy towards immigrants of enemy nationality, acknowledging the challenges faced by the Government of Canada and the experiences of internees. The author gives particular attention to how the political and legal status of enemy subjects configured the policy and practice of internment and how this process – magnified by the challenges of the war – affected the broader concerns of public order and national security. He places the issue of internment within the wider ideas of home and belonging, delving into the ways that wartime turbulence and anxieties shaped public attitudes towards the treatment of enemy aliens. Bohdan Kordan concludes that Canada’s leadership failed to protect immigrants of enemy origin during a period of intense suspicion, conflict, and crisis – a lesson that has contemporary political importance.

The book launch is part of a national speaking tour funded by the Shevchenko Foundation, McGill-Queens University Press, and coincides with National Internment Week – a national effort to commemorate the experience. The event is hosted by the Ukrainian Museum of Canada in cooperation with the Prairie Centre for the Study of Ukrainian Heritage at St. Thomas More College, and the Ukrainian Canadian Congress – Saskatoon Branch.

Free admission. Beverages and light snacks provided.