Sask.-raised filmmaker Boyko explores a 'shocking' Canadian

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Sask.-raised filmmaker Boyko explores a 'shocking' Canadian history

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Boyko was in Grade 10 when he learned about Canada's first national internment operations. His teacher told him, "That never happened."

Ashley Martin, Regina Leader-Post Updated: November 8, 2018
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Ryan Boyko’s documentary, That Never Happened: Canada’s First National Internment Operations, is about the internment camps that operated across Canada during and after the First World War. Archival photo / Submitted by Ryan Boyko
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During and after the First World War, 8,579 “enemy aliens” were interned in more than two dozen camps across Canada; about 5,000 of them were Ukrainian. But until quite recently, this wasn’t common knowledge. . . . .