Changes: List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Canada

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There were 40 known prisoner-of-war camps across Canada during World War II. The camps were identified by letters at first, then by numbers.^[1] The prisoners were given various tasks; many worked in the forests as logging crews. In addition to the main camps there were branch camps and labour camps.

The largest number of prisoners of war was recorded as 33,798. (One source claims that at its peak, Canada interned 35,046 prisoners of war and Japanese-Canadians.^[2]) There were an additional 6,437 civil internees, members of the merchant marine and refugees.^{[citation needed]}

There are claims that conditions in the Canadian camps tended to be better than average, and many times better than the conditions of the barracks that Canadian troops were kept in. It is believed by some that this treatment foiled many escape attempts before they even started. Notably, it is told that group of German prisoners returned to Ozada camp after escaping because of encountering a grizzly bear.^[3]

Camp	Place	Province	Location	Period
10	Chatham	Ontario	260 km southwest of Toronto	1944 1945-1946
10	Fingal	Ontario	40 km south of London	1945-1946
20 (C)	Gravenhurst	Ontario	170 km north of Toronto	1940-1946
21 (F)	Espanola	Ontario	330 km NNW of Toronto	1940-1943
22 (M)	Mimico	Ontario	15 km west of Toronto	1940-1944
23 (Q)	Monteith (near Iroquois Falls)	Ontario	700 km north of Toronto	1940-1946
30	Bowmanville	Ontario	65 km ENE of Toronto	1941-1945
31 (F)	Kingston	Ontario	145 km SSW of Ottawa	1940-1943
32 (H)	Hull	Quebec	10 km north of Ottawa	1941-(?)
33 (F)	Petawawa	Ontario	130 km WNW of Ottawa	1942-1946
40 (A)	Farnham	Quebec	50 km ESE of Montreal	1940-1941 1942-1943 1944-1946
42 (N)	Newington (Sherbrooke)	Quebec	130 km east of Montreal	1942-1946
44	Feller College / Grande Ligne	Quebec	275 km northeast of Montreal	1943-1946
45	Sorel	Quebec	65 km NNE of Montreal	1945-1946
70 (B)	Fredericton (Ripples)	New Brunswick	20 km east of Fredericton	1941-1945
100 (W)	Neys	Ontario	1100 km northwest of Toronto	1944-1943 1944-1946
101	Angler	Ontario	800 km northwest of Toronto	1941-1946
130	Seebe	Alberta	100 km west of Calgary	1939-1946
132	Medicine Hat	Alberta	260 km ESE of Calgary	1943-1945
133	Ozada	Alberta	130 km west of Calgary	1942
133	Lethbridge	Alberta	160 km southeast of Calgary	1942-1946
135	Wainwright	Alberta	190 km ESE of Edmonton	1945-1946
(R)	Red Rock	Ontario	Lake Superior	1940-1941
N/A	Wainfleet	Ontario	Close to Port Colborne	1943-1945

References[edit | edit source]

↑ Tremblay, Robert, Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, et all. "Histoires oubliées – Interprogrammes : Des prisonniers spéciaux" Interlude. Aired: 20 July 2008, 14h47 to 15h00.
↑ Chisholm, B., and Gutsche, A. Superior: Under the Shadow of the Gods, Lynx Images, 1998, p. 161
↑ "HOMELAND STORIES: Enemies Within". ReadingAndRemembrance.ca. http://www.readingandremembrance.ca/forms/2010/EnemiesWithin_Homeland%20Stories.pdf.

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[1] Tremblay, Robert, Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, et all. "Histoires oubliées – Interprogrammes : Des prisonniers spéciaux" Interlude. Aired: 20 July 2008, 14h47 to 15h00.

[2] Chisholm, B., and Gutsche, A. Superior: Under the Shadow of the Gods, Lynx Images, 1998, p. 161

[Reading_and_Remembrance_Project_2010-3] "HOMELAND STORIES: Enemies Within". ReadingAndRemembrance.ca. http://www.readingandremembrance.ca/forms/2010/EnemiesWithin_Homeland%20Stories.pdf.

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 There were 40 known [[prisoner-of-war camp]]s across Canada during [[World War II]]. The camps were identified by letters at first, then by numbers.<ref>Tremblay, Robert, Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, et all. "Histoires oubliées – Interprogrammes : Des prisonniers spéciaux" Interlude. Aired: 20 July 2008, 14h47 to 15h00.</ref> The [[Prisoner of war|prisoners]] were given various tasks; many worked in the forests as logging crews. In addition to the main camps there were branch camps and labour camps.
-The largest number of prisoners of war was recorded as 33,798. (One source claims that at its peak, Canada interned 35,046 [[prisoners of war]] and Japanese-Canadians.<ref>Chisholm, B., and Gutsche, A. ''Superior: Under the Shadow of the Gods'', Lynx Images, 1998, p. 161</ref>) There were an additional 6,437 civil internees, members of the merchant marine and refugees.{{Citation needed|date=November 2013}}
+The largest number of prisoners of war was recorded as 33,798. (One source claims that at its peak, Canada interned 35,046 [[prisoners of war]] and Japanese-Canadians.<ref>Chisholm, B., and Gutsche, A. ''Superior: Under the Shadow of the Gods'', Lynx Images, 1998, p. 161</ref>) There were an additional 6,437 civil internees, members of the merchant marine and refugees.{{Citation needed|date=November 2014}}
 There are claims that conditions in the Canadian camps tended to be better than average, and many times better than the conditions of the barracks that Canadian troops were kept in. It is believed by some that this treatment foiled many escape attempts before they even started. Notably, it is told that group of German prisoners returned to Ozada camp after escaping because of encountering a grizzly bear.<ref name="Reading and Remembrance Project 2010">{{cite web|url=http://www.readingandremembrance.ca/forms/2010/EnemiesWithin_Homeland%20Stories.pdf|title=HOMELAND STORIES: Enemies Within|publisher=ReadingAndRemembrance.ca}}</ref>
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