Rusted barbed wire and tin cans, wooden fence posts and some whitewashed stones that once demarcated footpaths inside the wire litter the site. Despite nearly a decade of lobbying by the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, the government has yet to acknowledge that these internment operations were unjust or make any real effort at redress. The moral and legal precedent set years ago by the Japanese Canadian Redress Agreement has been conveniently ignored. A religious service was held at Castle Mountain in 1990 to honour the memory of those who suffered there. A similar memorial took place in Canada's first internment camp, Fort Henry near Kingston, Ont.
Negotiations are under way to have a historic marker placed at the fort.
At Castle Mountain, a wreath was left behind. It soon disappeared. So did the cross and plaque put up in May this year. Both were torn down within weeks and the ground was levelled flat. I do not know who erected the cross.