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Canada's Internment Camps

Canada's Great War by Craig Baird / Curiouscast

Mar 8, 202225:59Society & Culture

From 1914-1920, 8,579 Canadians, deemed "enemy aliens" were kept in internment camps where they worked hard labour. Harsh conditions, escapes and suicides were common. It would take almost 100 years for recognition of th...

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Canada's Internment Camps is an episode from Canada's Great War by Craig Baird / Curiouscast. From 1914-1920, 8,579 Canadians, deemed "enemy aliens" were kept in internment camps where they worked hard labour. Harsh conditions, escapes and...

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Published Mar 8, 2022, 25:59 long, audio available.

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