{"id":10216,"date":"2014-12-08T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10216"},"modified":"2014-12-08T06:00:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T11:00:57","slug":"dealing-with-enemy-aliens-in-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/dealing-with-enemy-aliens-in-1914\/","title":{"rendered":"DEALING WITH ENEMY ALIENS IN 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday, December 8, 1914<\/em><\/p>\n

In Camp, West Down South, Salisbury Plains<\/em><\/p>\n

The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cDuty Battalion. Rifle inspection.\u201d \u00a0[1]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\"08<\/a>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY: \u201cDuring the First World War, national security fears and wartime prejudice drove the policy of internment, which lasted until 1920.\u00a0 During this time, Canada interned 8,579 people identified as \u201cenemy aliens,\u201d mainly Ukrainian and German immigrants, across a network of 24 camps.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 [i]<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cOttawa, December 10. \u2013 It is understood that it has been decided by the Government to utilize many of the alien enemies who have been interned in Ontario and in Quebec to clear sites for experimental farms in northern Ontario and northern Quebec, along the lines of the National Transcontinental Railway.<\/p>\n

The Government has had under consideration for some time the question of such farms along the route of the N.T.R. to demonstrate the value of these lands for agricultural purposes.\u00a0 The illness of Hon. Martin Burrell has delayed the carrying the scheme into operation.<\/p>\n

\"08<\/a>Active steps will be taken at once in selecting the sites and in preparatory work of clearing.\u00a0 The alien enemies may be utilized for this purpose, as under the rules of the international law provision must be made for their maintenance as long as they are detained in this country.<\/p>\n

Some eight hundred are being sent to Petawawa Military Camp to clear roads.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 [i]<\/a><\/p>\n

* Enemy aliens: A term commonly used to describe citizens of states legally at war with Canada who resided in Canada during the war.<\/p>\n

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[1]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 War Diary, 14th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, Dec 8, 1914.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089681.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n
[2]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1244, Item 867A as found at \u00a0http:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/files\/2014\/09\/German-prisoners-CNE.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n
[3]\u00a0 http:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/files\/2014\/09\/German-prisoners-CNE.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n
[4]\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cAlien Enemies To Clear Farm Sites,\u201d The Montreal Daily Mail,<\/em> Montreal, Quebec, Friday, December 11, 1914, pg. 3, col. 3<\/pre>\n
[5]\u00a0 \u00a0Ibid<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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