Caitrin heads to the UMC to find out more about 'Pause in Plight' - an exhibit on World War One internment camps in Canada.

A Vernon art exhibit will shine a light on dark part of Canada's past.

Pause in Plight is a touring exhibition making its way across Canada between 2020-25 to help bring awareness to the historical injustice of internment during the First World War.

An interment camp comprised mostly of Austro-Hungarian and German descent was located in the field where WL Seaton is now located.

Before the camp closed in February 1920, some 1,100 men, women and children had passed through its gates.

Gallery Vertigo, in partnership with the Artist Michelle Loughery Sunflower Project, will host the exhibit June 3 to 29, with an opening reception taking place on June 3 from 6 to 8 p.m.

A set of five paintings adorn one section of a new exhibit at the Oseredok Ukrainian Cultural and Education Centre. At each frame, the viewer is met by the gaze of a child depicted with old and wise eyes designed to represent a soul that has experienced hardship.

All of the children are clothed in the traditional garb of their home countries — the cultural heritage for which they were persecuted.

During the First World War, up to 8,579 men — primarily of Bulgarian, Croatian, Armenian, Ukrainian and Serbian descent — were interned in camps across Canada, including one in Brandon, Man.

BROKEN PROMISE. EXHIBITION DEDICATED TO INTERNED CANADIANS “PAUSE IN PLIGHT”

Daria Bajus for New Pathway – Ukrainian News.

The Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund, a $10 million endowment, was established to commemorate and educate Canadians about Canada's first national internment operations of 1914 to 1920.

Represented by the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA), the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko (UCFTS), and the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC), the endowment was officially signed on May 9, 2008.

The Ukrainian Canadian Community was represented by three individuals in the negotiations and signing of the fund, Mr. Andrew Hladyshevsky Q.C. (UCFTS), Mr. Paul Grod (UCC) and Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk (UCCLA).

Hladyshesvky, a corporate partner at Denton's Law Firm, President of the Shevchenko Foundation for 20 years, and Vice President of the Canadian First

New Pathway – Ukrainian News.

Ukrainian Canadian Art Foundation (UCAF) and KUMF Gallery launched the Fall 2020 Season with an opening of a 17-piece art exhibit “Pause in Plight”.

“We’re very pleased to launch our Fall 2020 Season with such a critical exhibition and to be able to welcome everyone,” said Chair & President of UCAF/KUMF Gallery Jurij Klufas, on Sunday, September 13.