Farming – POWs in Canada

A Lesson in Agriculture: Learning to Farm at Camp 20

In the Summer of 1945, a few dozen men spent their days working on a small farm along Jones Road just outside Gravenhurst, Ontario. To the average onlooker, this would not have garnered extra attention, but a closer look would reveal something more surprising – these men were German combatant officers from nearby Prisoner ofContinue reading “A Lesson in Agriculture: Learning to Farm at Camp 20”

A Needle in a Beetstack: POWs in Southern Manitoba (Revisited)

Updated October 2024 Several years ago, I acquired a group of photographs that had come from an unidentified prisoner of war interned in Canada during the Second World War. Included were group shots of prisoners in Camp 133 (Lethbridge), photos taken in a bush camp in Northern Ontario, and photos of prisoners working on aContinue reading “A Needle in a Beetstack: POWs in Southern Manitoba (Revisited)”