Enemy Aliens interned in Canada are paid 20 cents a day for their work cutting wood and improving campsites

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Enemy Aliens interned in Canada are paid 20 cents a day for their work cutting wood and improving campsites

Date3/23/1940

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Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Enemy Aliens interned in Canada are paid 20 cents a day for their work cutting wood and improving campsites. These pictures are taken at Kananaskis; unofficially called Camp Kan-A-Nazi; located in the Rockies; one of two such camps in the Dominion. The other is at Petawawa; Ont. Two prisoners who escaped and were recaptured have been sentenced to two years in prison

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Prisoners of war

World War, 1939-1945

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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)

Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0019133F

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