postcard campaigns
From time to time UCCLA informs MPs and other public officials, the media, and our supporters about issues we believe are of importance to the Canadian Ukrainian community. We do so by sending all MPs, Senators and selected media outlets unique postcards of the sort found on the following pages. UCCLA postcards remind our elected officials of community concerns and urge them to take appropriate measures - either to right historic injustices or to undo contemporary wrongs.
internment
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Internment postcards sent to Canadian Members of Parliament
June 20, 2020 marks the 100th Anniversary of the end of Canada's first national Internment operations. On this day we remember them. ©2020 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation
On June 20th, 2000, please have the Canada Post Corporation issue a series of six stamps commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of Canada's first national Internment operations of 1914-1920. ©UCCLA
Castle Mountain Internee Statue, unveiled August 12, 1995, Banff National Park. Photo credit: Michael Lee, The Whig Standard, Kingston, Ontario. © 1985 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
A permanent exhibit about Canada's first national Internment operations will be officially be opend at the Cave & Basin National Historic Site in Banff National Park, Alberta. Come witness this important commemorative and educational event. Friday, September 13, 2013. 2 PM MT. Cave & Basin National Historic Site. ©2013 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
A permanent exhibit about Canada's first national internment operations will soon be officially opened at the Cave & Basin National Historic Site, in Banff National Park, AB. Come witness this important and educational event. Thursday, June 20, 2013 at 2 PM, Cave & Basin National Historic Site, Banff National Park, AB ©2013 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Internees near Castle Mountain, circa 1916. Photo credit: Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. © Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association 1985
Internees near Cave and Basin Internment Camp, Banff National Park. circa 1916. Photo credit: Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. © 1985 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Internees at Castle Mountain Internment Camp, Banff National Park. circa 1916. Photo credit: Whyte Museum of Canada. © 1985 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Arrival of more Castle Mountain Internees, Banff National Park. circa 1916. Photo credit: Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. © 1985 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
During Canada's first national internment operations, Spirit Lake Internees
On November 5, 2002, the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association will launch the Roll Call Project at the House of Commons in Ottawa. Over 35,000 postcards will be mailed out to Canadian households identified as having the same or similar surnames to those of over 8,000 European immigrants interned needlessly during Canada's first national internment operations of 1914-1920. ©2002 UCCLA
"The Internment of Ukrainians during WWI as enemy aliens is one of the sadder stories in the history of this country." Her Excellency Madame Adrienne Clarkson, Govenor General of Canada, Aug 4, 2004, Dauphin, MB ©2004 UCCLA
An Agreement in Principle was signed between the Ukrainian Canadian community and the Government of Canada on August 24, 2005. And Bill C 331 received Royal Assent on November 24, 2005. Mary Manko is now 98. I want her to bear witness to a timely and honourable Ukrainian Canadian Redress Settlement. Why is it taking so long? ©2006 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
holodomor
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Holodomor postcards sent to Canadian Members of Parliament
"All I want for Christmas is Holodomor included in the dictionary." Help get Holodomor included in all major dictionaries! ©2020 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association Holodomor means death by hunger. Millions of Ukrainians were deliberately starved to death in 1932-33. In this way, the Soviets committed genocide against them. A definition for Holodomor is absent from most western dictionaries. Help convince them to rectify this ommission.
I support the development of a permanent federally funded Genocide Museum, in Ottawa, which will recall and educate all Canadians about the many episodes of genocide in the 20th century, including the Soviet man-made famine in Ukraine. ©1999 Ukrainian Canadian Congress and Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is a taxpayer-funded museum, not a private project. No national institution should elevate the suffering of any community above the others. All of the CMHR's galleries should be thematic, comparative, and inclusive. Until that happens I oppose additional federal funding for the CMHR. There's been enough shovelling and spreading. ©2012 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is a taxpayer-funded national museum. Its 12 galleries should all be inclusive, comparative and thematic in their treatment of the many episodes of genocide and crimes against humanity - before, during and since WWII. Instead two communities are being given privleged, permanent and prominent exhibit spaces, elevating the horrors suffered by a few above all others. That's unfair. That's unacceptable. Partiality shouldn't be funded from the public purse.©2011
The CMHR is a taxpayer-funded national museum, not a private project. A majority of Canadians agree that no community's suffering should be elevated above all others at the CMHR. Yet that's what the CMHR's board of directors intends to do. Who gave them that mandate? All of the CMRH;s exhibits should be thematic, comparative, and inclusive in content. We're against preferential treatment for any group in Canada's newest national museum. ©2013 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
©2006 Canadians For A Genocide Museum
©2006 Canadians For A Genocide Museum
I support federal funding for the development of an inclusive Canadian Museum of Genocide in Ottawa to hallow the memory of all victims of genocide and crimes against humanity, not only in Europe but in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and elsewheree, before and during the 20th century. ©2000 UCCLA, UCC and Canadians for a Genocide Museum.
Dear Member of PZarliament; Let us remember the seven million Ukrainians who were starved to death in the 1933 Famine-Genocide engineered by Stalin's regime in Soviet Ukraine. Let us support an all inclusive Canadian Genocide Museum that recognizes all victims of genocide in the 20th century. ©Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Cpl Filip konowal, VC
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Konowal postcards sent to Canadian Members of Parliament
A Distinction Restored. Filip Konowal's valour during the Battle for Hill 70, near Lens France, in August 1917, was recognized with a Victoria Cross. Today, we celebrate the recovery of this medal and its return to the Canadian War Museum. Ottawa, August 23, 2004. © 2004 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Please have Canada Post issue a series of stamps commemorating all of Canada's Victory Cross winners, including Filip Konowal, the only Ukrainian Canadian recipient of this distinction. ©1999 UCCLA
no kgb in canada
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No KGB in Canada postcards sent to Canadian Members of Parliament
Dear MP, A veteran of the notorious Soviet secret police, the KGB, is living in Canada, more than 3 years after he was ordered deported by the Hon. Mr. Justice Russel W. Zin of the Federal Court of Canada. No veterans of the KGB are admissible to Canada. This man has no right to enter nor remain in Canada. His bogus claim to being a refugee was dismissed by the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (May 23, 2006). ©2013 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Between 1917 and 1991 more than 20 million men, women and children were murdered by the Soviet secret police, known variously as the Cheka, NKVD, SMERSH and KGB. Some perpetrators and enablers of Communist war crimes and crimes against humanity are in Canada. They shouldn't be. Merry Christmas and Peace to Men of Goodwill* *veterans of the Communist secret police not included. ©2010 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Dear MP, On January 28, 2010, The National Post quoted the Hon. Vic Toews, Minister of Public Safety: "The Immirgration and Refugee Board and the courts have determined that Mr. Lennikov is not admissible to Canada under our laws." So why is this veteran of the Soviet secret police, the KGB, still living in the First Lutheran Church, 5745 Wales Street, Vancouver, BC? No KGB In Canada! ©2011 Ukrainian Candian Civil Liberties Association
Canada should not become "the home and native land" of veterans of the NKVD, SMERSH and KGB. Denaturalize and deport them all. No exceptions. ©2009 UCCLA
Why is a KGB man allowed to remain in Canada? He is not a refugee. He had no right to enter Canada. He has no right to remain here. His deportation was ordered on June 1, 2009. Why is he still here? Ex-KGB men do well in Russia. Send Mikhail home, now!
Dear Fellow Canadian: Mikhail Lennikov was an officer in the notorious Soviet secret police, the KGB. So he had no right to enter Canada. When found here he was told that he had no right to remain. So he claimed too be a refugee. The Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada said he was ot. He appealed. He lost his appeal. A Federal Court judge ordered him deported. That's when he fled to a pre-prepared bolt-hole in an East Vancouver church, claiming 'sanctuary.' There is no such thing. ©UCCLA
Canada should not allow any veterans of the Soviet secret police - the NKVD, SMERSH and KGB - to live here. No excuses. No exceptions. Denaturalize and deport them all, immediately. ©UCCLA
Dear Minister Toews: On January 28, 2010 The National Post quoted you as saying: "The Immigration and Refugee Board and the courts have determined that Mr. Lennikov is not admissible to Canada under our laws." So why is this veteran officer of the Soviet secret police, the KGB, still living in the First Lutheran Church, 5745 Wales Street, Vancouver, BC? ©2011 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
The Swedish diplomat, Raoul Wallenberg, saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust. He was kidnapped in Budapest January 17, 1945, tortured, then murdered by the Soviet secret police. He was made an honorary citizen of the USA in 1981, and of Canada, in 1985. Yet veterans of the Soviet secret police - men and women who served in the NKVD, SMERSH, and KGB - are living comfortable lives in retirement in the USA and Canada. Shouldn't they be brought to justice? Remember Raoul! © UCCLA
On January 28, 2010, The National Post quoted the Hon. Vic Toews, Minister of Public Safety, as saying: "The Immigrations and Refugee Board and the courts have determined that Mr. Lennikov is not admissible to Canada under our laws." I agree! So why is this veteran officer of the notorious Soviet secret police, the KGB, still here? ©2010 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Santa's going to give you a Christmas gift anyway - your very own KGB veteran Lennikov toy. May you get what you deserve in the New Year! PS If you wan the real Captain KGB ask Canada to send him back to Vladivostok. We'd rather return Russians to you before you invade us to 'protect' them. Ho,ho,ho. ©2015 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
war crimes
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War Crimes postcards sent to Canadian Members of Parliament
Invading Russian soldiers murdered this Ukrainian prisoner of war after he spoke the words, Glory to Ukraine! This was a war crime. We urge the Government of Canada to officially describe the Russian Federation as a terrorist state. ©2023 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
A set of guidelines known as the Nuremberg Principles, were created by the UNs International Law Commission following the Second World War...Any persons charged with a crime under international law has the right to a fair trial based on the facts and law. Vladimir Putin should get a fair trial. Then he should be hanged. ©2022 UCCLA
Dear Mr. Joly: Millions of Ukrainians were enslaved or murdered by the Nazis. Canada's National Holocaust Memorial should hallow the memory of all of the victims of Nazi oppression. Why doesn't it? ©2018 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Your Excellency Viktor Yuschenko, Many millions of Ukrainians were victims of Soviet oppression between 1917 and 1991. Please establish an official Commission of Inquiry into Soviet War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in Ukraine to document they nature and extent of these crimes and bring those responsible to justice. ©2005 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
The Ukrainian Canadian community believes that all criminals found in Canada, regardless of their ethnic, religious or racial origin, or the period or place where they allegedly committed war crimes or crimes agains humanity, should be brought to justice in Canada under Canadian Criminal Law. We do not support the denaturalization and deportation of Canadian citizens to third countries.
The Ukrainian Canadian community believes that all war criminals found in Canada regardless of their ethnic, religious or racial origin, or the period or place where they allegedly committed war crimes or crimes against humanity, should be brought to justice in Canada under Canadian criminal law. We do not support the denaturalization and deportation of Canadian citizens to other countries. ©UCC & UCCLA. Cover "In the gas chamber" from Album of a Political Prisoner, Paladij Osynka, 1946 Munich
"Never Forget" that Ukraine lost more of it's population than any other European nation during WWII. Please ensure that any federally supported Holocaust Museum in Canada is inclusive, recalling the suffering and mass murder of millions of non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust. ©1999 UCCLA
Veterans of Soviet secret police formations like the NKVD, SMERSH and KGB should not be allowed to enter Canada nor to remain here. No exceptions. Denaturalize and deport them all, immediately. ©Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Until a person is convicted of a war crime or crime against humanity in a Canadian criminal court, I oppose the denaturalization and deportation of any citizen to any other country. ©2002 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Canada should not allow any veterans of the Soviet secret police - the NKVD, SMERSH and KGB - to live here. No excuses. No exceptions. Denaturalize and deport them all, immediately. Stand up for Canada! ©2009 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Canada should not become "the home and native land' of veterans of the NKVD, SMERSH and KGB. Denaturalize and deport them all, now. No exceptions. ©2009 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
uccla christmas
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A collection of the annual Christmas postcards sent to Canadian Members of Parliament
In 1932-33, millions were murdered in the Holodomor. From 2022 to present, another genocidal agenda by the Kremlin is happening against Ukraine.
During Canada's first national Internment operations of 1914-1920, thousands of Ukrainians were unjustly interned as "enemy aliens." ©2021 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
"All I want for Christmas is Holodomor included in the dictionary." Help get Holodomor included in all major dictionaries! Holodomor means death by hunger. Millions of Ukrainians were deliberately starved to death in 1932-33. In this way, the Soviets committed genocide against them. A definition for Holodomor is absent from most western dictionaries. Help convince them to rectify this omission. ©2020 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
During Canada's first national Internment operations of 1914 to 1920 thousands of men, women and children were branded as "enemy aliens." May were imprisoned. Stripped of what little wealth they had, forced to do heavy labour in Canada's hinterlands, they were also disenfranshised and subjected to other state sanctioned censures not because of anything they had done but only because of where they had come from, who they were. ©2019 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Joyous Tidings! On October 11, 2018 the Ukrainian Orthodox Church secured its independence from Moscow! Hallelujah! ©2018 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
At least 16 men and some children were buried in the Spirit Lake Internment Camp cemetery near La Ferme, Quebec. For many years Canada's Ukrainian community has asked the Government of Canada to acquire and restore this hallowed ground before the final resting place of these victims of Canada's first national Internment operations is forever lost to the boreal forest. ©2016 UCCLA
This Christmas, Mr. Harper, please give to me - No More KGB! No veteran of the Soviet secret police, the KGB, is admissible to Canada or has any right to remain here. There is no "right to sanctuary" recognized by Canadian law. All veterans of the Cheka, NKVD, SMERSH and KGB found in Canada should be removed immediately, whence they came, with no exceptions. ©2013 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Christmas Postcard. ©2007 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Redress Now! - May This be The Year! ©UCCLA
During Canada's first national Internment operations of 1914 to 1920 thousands of Ukrainians were unjustly interned as "enemy aliens." ©UCCLA
...the conditions here are very poor...we can not go on much longer, we are not getting enought to eat...we are hungry as dogs...we are very weak." Nick Olynyk, prisoner #98, Castle Mountain, Banff National Park ©2011 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
2002 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Christmas post card. ©2002 UCCLA
Between 1917 an 1991 more than 20 million men, women and children were murdered by the Soviet secret police, known as the Cheka, NKVD, SMERSH and KGB. Some perpetrators and enablers of Communist war crimes and crimes against humanity are in Canada. They shouldn't be. Merry Christmas and Peace to Men of Goodwill* *veterans of the Communist secret police not included. ©2009 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Durining Canada's first national Internment operations thousands of Ukrainians were unjustly interned as "enemy aliens." ©UCCLA
General
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General Postcards
$10,000 Reward! For information leading to the identification and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the hate crime was perpetrated against Future Bakery in Toronto on February 7-8, 2022. ©2022 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Dear fellow Ukrainian Canadian, This year on March 9th, the birthdate of Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine's national poet, we urge you to go to a public, college or university library in your community and borrow any book on Ukraine or Ukrainians in Canada. If books on Ukraine are not checked out many will be discarded. ©2009 Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation
Dear Friend of Ukraine: Thank you for supporting freedom for Ukraine! Millions of Ukrainians have shown the world that they will have their liberty, that they will not tolerate corruption, that they want Ukraine to remain in Europe. Please continue to stand with them and defend democracy in Ukraine. © Ukrainian American Civil Liberties Association and the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Dear MP: His name was Andrei Anghel. He was 24. He was a Canadian. He was from Ajax, ON. He was in Europe studying medicine. He was taking a vacation when he was murdered on July 17, 2014. So were the other 297 passengers and crew aboard Malaysian Airlines Flight MH-17. What is Canada doing about the murder of a Canadian? ©2016 UCCLA