List of POW camps in Canada
- List of POW camps in Canada
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. 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 labor 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. [Chisholm, B., and Gutsche, A. "Superior: Under the Shadow of the Gods", Lynx Images, 1998, p. 161] ) There were an additional 6,437 civil internees, members of the merchant marine and refugees.Fact|date=February 2007
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 that this treatment foiled many escape attempts before they even started. Notably, a group of German prisoners returned to Ozada camp after escaping because of encountering a Grizzly Bear.Fact|date=February 2007
{| class="wikitable" !Camp!Place!Province!Location!Period
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10
Chatham
Ontario
260 km southwest of Toronto
1944
1945-1946
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10
Fingal
Ontario
40 km south of London
1945-1946
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20 (C)
Gravenhurst
Ontario
170 km north of Toronto
1940-1946
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21 (F)
Espanola
Ontario
330 km NNW of Toronto
1940-1943
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22 (M)
Mimico
Ontario
15 km west of Toronto
1940-1944
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23 (C)
Monteith
Ontario
700 km north of Toronto
1940-1946
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30
Bowmanville
Ontario
65 km ENE of Toronto
1941-1945
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31 (F)
Kingston
Ontario
145 km SSW of Ottawa
1940-1943
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32 (H)
Hull
Quebec
10 km north of Ottawa
1941-(?)
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33 (F)
Petawawa
Ontario
130 km WNW of Ottawa
1942-1946
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40 (A)
Farnham
Quebec
50 km ESE of Montreal
1940-1941
1942-1943
1944-1946
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42 (N)
Newington (Sherbrooke)
Quebec
130 km east of Montreal
1942-1946
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44
Feller College / Grande Ligne
Quebec
275 km northeast of Montreal
1943-1946
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45
Sorel
Quebec
65 km NNE of Montreal
1945-1946
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70 (B)
Fredericton
New Brunswick|
1941-1945
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100 (W)
Neys
Ontario
800 km northwest of Toronto
1944-1943
1944-1946
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101
Angler
Ontario
800 km northwest of Toronto
1941-1946
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130
Seebe
Alberta
100 km west of Calgary
1939-1946
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132
Medicine Hat
Alberta
260 km ESE of Calgary
1943-1945
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133
Ozada
Alberta
130 km west of Calgary
1942
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133
Lethbridge
Alberta
160 km southeast of Calgary
1942-1946
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135
Wainright
Alberta
190 km ESE of Edmonton
1945-1946
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(R)
Red Rock
Ontario
Lake of the Woods
1940-1941
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