Prisoners in the Promised Land

By: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
“Dear Diary,
Every time I think it can’t get worse, it does. Ten Canadians have been killed in battle, and three Allied warships have sunk. Canadians are angry as bees and they are taking it out on us. Tato, Stefan and Mr. Pemlych have all been sent to northern Quebec. I heard that it is very cold up there and that there will be wild animals that eat people. What did we do to deserve this? Didn’t they ask us to come here in the first place? If the Canadian government didn’t want us, why did they encourage us to come?”