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Dark chapter in Canada’s history remembered on National Internment Day

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On the outskirts of MacDonald Park near Vernon, B.C.’s Seaton Secondary School, a monument has stood since 1997. It commemorates a chapter in the city’s history that needs to be remembered.
So say the folks who have cared for the Vernon Internment Camp monument and had it replaced a few years ago. Those people and others gathered at the monument on National Internment Commemoration Day Wednesday, Oct. 28, to share words about a local First World War-era injustice and the lessons that

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