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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. Several reliable sources indicate that there were only 25 or 26 camps holding exclusively prisoners from foreign countries, nearly all from Germany.

The camps were identified by letters at first, then by numbers. In addition to the main camps there were branch camps and labour camps. The prisoners were given various tasks; many worked in the forests as logging crews or on nearby farms; they were paid a nominal amount for their labour. Approximately 11,000 were thus employed by 1945. In addition to POWs, some civilian internees were held in the camps and some estimates include such prisoners.

All POWs were protected by the conditions of the Geneva Convention. 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. Starting in 1945, all POWs were released and returned to their home countries.

|1940–1941<br>1942–1943<br>1944–1946

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|42 (N)

|Newington (Sherbrooke)

|Quebec

|130&nbsp;km east of Montreal

|990 Rue Bowen S, Sherbrooke, QC

|1942–1946

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|43

|Ile Ste Helene, Montreal

|Quebec

|

|

|1940–1943

|-

|44

|Feller College / Grande Ligne

|Quebec

|56&nbsp;km southeast of Montreal

|

|1943–1946

|-

|45

|Sorel

|Quebec

|65&nbsp;km NNE of Montreal

|

|1945–1946

|-

|70 (B)

|Fredericton (Ripples)

|New Brunswick

|20&nbsp;km east of Fredericton

|

|1941–1945

|-

|100 (W)

|Neys

|Ontario

|1100&nbsp;km northwest of Toronto

|

|1944–1943<br>1944-1946

|-

|101 (X)

|Angler

|Ontario

|800&nbsp;km northwest of Toronto

|

|1941–1946

|-

|130

|Seebe

|Alberta

|100&nbsp;km west of Calgary

|

|1939–1946

|-

|132

|Medicine Hat

|Alberta

|260&nbsp;km ESE of Calgary

|2055 21 Ave SE, Medicine Hat, AB

|1943–1945

|-

|133

|Ozada

|Alberta

|130&nbsp;km west of Calgary

|

|1942

|-

|133

|Lethbridge

|Alberta

|160&nbsp;km southeast of Calgary

|

|1942–1946

|-

|?

|Chisholm

|Alberta

|180&nbsp;km N of Edmonton

|

|?

|--

|135

|Wainwright

|Alberta

|190&nbsp;km ESE of Edmonton

|

|1945–1946

|-

|(R)

|Red Rock

|Ontario

|Lake Superior

|

|1940–1941

|-

|?

|Whitewater

|Manitoba

|Riding Mountain National Park

|

|1943–1945

|-

|N/A

|Wainfleet

|Ontario

|Close to Port Colborne

|

|1943–1945

|}

German prisoners

  • Georg Hees

See also

  • List of World War I prisoner-of-war camps in Canada
  • Lac Saint-Jean

References

  • Truro Daily