The first surge of [Ukrainian] immigrants [to Canada] faced more functional and physical challenges as tilling the land and setting up a new life for future generations to grow up in, whereas the second surge faced social discrimination in a fairly established Ukrainian community in Canada. Ukrainian immigrants, both before and after the war, experienced first hand what it means to be ‘tied to one’s homeland forever’, even if the homeland never treated them well. They faced racial prejudices, financial and social hardships when first arriving as a result of the conditions of the land they came from, and fifteen years later, they still faced the same discrimination, and even hatred, from the country they had chosen as their safe haven, because of the land they came from. Though today Ukrainian Canadians are veterans in this multicultural and multiethnic country, their initial journey in Canada was marred with difficulties as a result of their culture and ethnicity itself.