Who Broke the Prairie

Ottawa went to Galicia and Bukovyna for farmers and got them. When war came, their Austro-Hungarian papers made them enemy aliens, and 8,579 people were interned until 1920 — two years after the armistice.

For six years New Iceland had its own constitution, its own councils and its own newspaper, inside Canada and outside any province. Then the boundary moved, and the smallpox it had brought with it had already moved further.