Editing International Brigades (section)

=== Canada ===
Survivors of the [[Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion]] were often investigated by the [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] (RCMP) and denied employment when they returned to Canada. Many "Mac-Pap" veterans volunteered to fight in [[World War II]], but some were rejected as "politically unreliable" due to their communist backgrounds.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Howard |first1=Victor |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.cttq92bw |title=MacKenzie-Papineau Battalion: The Canadian Contingent in the Spanish Civil War |last2=Reynolds |first2=Mac |date=1986 |publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press |pages=239–240 |jstor=j.cttq92bw |isbn=978-0-88629-049-8}}</ref>

In 1995, a monument to Canadian soldiers in the Spanish Civil War was built near [[Ontario]]'s provincial parliament.<ref>{{cite news| title = Unsung Canadian soldiers honored ... at last| url = https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/21200277.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun+04%2C+1995&author=by+Susan+Kastner+TORONTO+STAR&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Unsung+Canadian+soldiers+honored+.+.+.at+last&pqatl=google| first=Susan| last=Kastner| date = 4 June 1995| work = [[Toronto Star]]| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107235901/https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/21200277.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun+04%2C+1995&author=by+Susan+Kastner+TORONTO+STAR&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Unsung+Canadian+soldiers+honored+.+.+.at+last&pqatl=google| archive-date=7 November 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> On 12 February 2000, a bronze statue, "The Spirit of the Republic" by sculptor [[Jack Harman (artist)|Jack Harman]], based on a poster from the Spanish Republic, was placed on the grounds of the [[British Columbia]] Legislature.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.workingtv.com/main13.html|title="Mac-Pap" Monument Unveiling|publisher=workingTV |access-date=25 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227014034/http://www.workingtv.com/main13.html| archive-date=27 December 2016| url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2001, the few surviving Canadian veterans of the Spanish Civil War dedicated a monument in Ottawa's [[Green Island (Rideau River)|Green Island Park]] to their country's International Brigaders.