I am happy to announce some significant additions to this site. When I first started this site for a Digital History course back in 2013(!), I had always hoped on turning it into a resource for individuals interested in learning more about Canadian Internment Operations during the Second World War. For the last few year or so, I have working on this project and finally some of these resources are ready to share.
Rather than just a list of internment camps at the menu at the top of the page, you can now find a link to a profile for each internment camp that held German and Italian prisoners of war, Enemy Merchant Seamen (EMS), and civilian internees in Canada from 1939 through 1947. In addition to some brief statistics, you will find information exploring what life was like in each of these camps, how prisoners spent their days behind barbed wire, and what has happened to them in the last eighty-odd years. Image galleries bring together photographs and artwork from archives and museums across Canada (and the world) and from my personal research collection.
Future updates will delve a little deeper into themes of daily life in internment camps, the role of the Veterans Guard of Canada, and the almost three hundred labour projects – namely bush camps and farm hostels – scattered across Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec. If there’s other topics you would like to me cover, please make suggestions in the comments below.
Without further ado, you can find out more about Canada’s internment camps by click this link or by clicking on one of the images or links below. Please report any broken links or issues by commenting below or sending me a message. Stay tuned for updates and, if you haven’t done so already, sign up for email updates by entering your email in the “Follow Blog via Email” at the bottom of this page.
Internment Camps in Canada, 1939-1947
That’s all for now. These pages will be periodically updated as I continue my research but rest assured for I’ll make a post if I find something of note!
POWs in Canada 
Greeting Michael – Continue with your research/publishing efforts well into the future to help create additional interest into the now relatively unknown history of the PoW/Veterans Guard time in Canadian history. You are providing an essential service to historians/collecstors.
Bob Henderson – Homefront Archives.