This article examines the resettlement of Ukrainian Displaced Persons (DPs) in Canada during the immediate post-World War II period (1945–1951). Allowed to emigrate from Western Europe to Canada, partially as a result of the lobbying efforts of various voluntary agencies established by Ukrainian Canadians, these DPs soon became embroiled in acrimonious debates with representatives of the previously established Ukrainian Canadian population. The DPs’ creation of a number of new organizations both alienated the receiving Ukrainian society and had deleterious effect on the latter's overseas refugee relief and resettlement operations, which lasted only until 1951.
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