%0 Journal Article
%T Polish Issues in Canada During World War I
%A Reczyńska, Anna
%J Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora
%V 2020 (XLVI)
%R 10.4467/25444972SMPP.20.019.12335
%N Vol. 2 (176)
%P 227-245
%K World War I, Polish Diaspora in Canada, Niagara-on-the-Lake camp, Haller’s Army, Colonel Arthur D’Orr LePan
%@ 2081-4488
%D 2020
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/smpp/article/sprawy-polskie-w-kanadzie-w-czasie-i-wojny-swiatowej
%X 
	The article presents the impact of World War I on Polish immigrants in Canada, the position of the Polish ethnic group in this country and the efforts of persons of Polish descent in regard to recruitment for the Polish Army in North America. Poles, who were subjects of Germany or the Austro-Hungarian Empire were treated as enemy aliens. Those people were forced to register and report to the police on a regular basis and some of them were interned in labour camps during the war. Some were released from the camps after an intervention of Polish organizations and priests. Soldiers of Polish descent, volunteers and recruits also fought in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in Europe. Over 20,000 Polish volunteers from the US (including over 200 from Canada) enrolled in a training camp formed in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario on the border with the US. The problems with the organization and functioning of the camp, and opinions on Polish volunteers shaped the attitude of many Canadians towards the Polish diaspora and the newly established Polish state.