Students at a local high school had no idea what horror took place on the very land their classrooms rest on more than 100 years ago.
W. L. Seaton is located on property that was one of 24 Ukrainian/Eastern European Internment camps during the First World War.
“It’s really horrible and absolutely devastating what these people had to go through,” Grade 11 student Mais Cesario said. “And one of the saddest parts is that very few people actually know about the internment camps.”
But after learning the history of what is now known as MacDonald Park and the secondary school, 12 of Seaton’s drama students created a play to share the history of the land. Called Seeds of Hope: A Story of Ukrainian Internment in Canada, the show is streaming Feb. 12-15 through ticketseller.ca.
