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There were 40 known prisoner-of-war camps across Canada during World War II, although this number also includes internment camps that held Canadians of German and Japanese descent. [1] Several reliable sources indicate that there were only 25 or 26 camps holding exclusively prisoners from foreign countries, nearly all from Germany. [2] [3] [4]
Pages in category "World War II internment camps in Canada" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Canada" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
An Internment Camp in Vernon, BC was established to hold enemy aliens and POWs during the First World War. Once Canada entered World War I , fears of enemy aliens on the home front began to arise. To combat this, the Canadian Government implemented the War Measures Act which gave them the authority to intern and disenfranchise enemy aliens ...
Prisoners of war during World War II faced vastly different fates depending on the theater of conflict, their captors, and the conventions adhered to or ignored. During the war approximately 35 million soldiers surrendered, with many held in the prisoner-of-war camps. Most of the POWs were taken in the European theatre of the war. Approximately ...
World War II internment camps in Canada (19 P) Pages in category "Internment camps in Canada" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre is a museum that preserves and interprets one of ten Canadian concentration camps where more than 27,000 Japanese Canadians were incarcerated by the Canadian government during and after World War II (1942 to 1949). [2] The centre was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 2007. [2]
Category: World War II sites in Canada. 2 languages. ... World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Canada (12 P) W. World War II airfields in Canada (2 C, 7 P)