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Nestled in snow, Double wire fencing features the camp-like atmosphere of the internment centre at Petawawa
Nestled in snow, Double wire fencing features the camp-like atmosphere of the internment centre at Petawawa

Nestled in snow, Double wire fencing features the camp-like atmosphere of the internment centre at Petawawa

Date1/27/1940
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Original Toronto Star caption: Nestled in snow; Double wire fencing features the camp-like atmosphere of the internment centre at Petawawa. Surrounded by bush. Petawawa is the home for G3ermans who have been placed in custory for the duration of the war.
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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_0019246F
View of camp site, Nine of 28 Nazi airmen who tunnelled out of a Northern Ontario internment camp last night have been recaptured, Col. Hubert Stethem(...)
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Each Prisoner is allowed $3 worth of coupons per month to buy ice cream and other refreshments in the canteen of the internment camp at Camp Chaffee, Ark
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Sentries are suspicious, Elaborate precautions have been taken to prevent the escape from the internment camp
Sentries are suspicious, Elaborate precautions have been taken to prevent the escape from the internment camp
1/27/1940
Prisoners lead their own lives, German songs ring out into the night from Petawawa interment camp
Prisoners lead their own lives, German songs ring out into the night from Petawawa interment camp
1/27/1940
Former fighter pilot: Wally Floody, 69, the chief planner of the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III in 1944, holds a photo taken of himself during his internment
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4/30/1987
Barbed wire and floodlights bar the way to, Here is the Northern Ontario prison camp from which Lieut
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Fugitive German Fliers must free through rocky, bush, barbed wire fences surround the camp on the north shore of Lake Superior from which 28 Germans e(...)
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Machine-Gun Work is another training feature at Camp Borden
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Picture at upper right shows the good old-fashioned way of escape by trying to unknot a barbed wire entanglement
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Miss Negro War Worker of the U.S. is Belle Calloun, chief wire machine operator in a war plant
Miss Negro War Worker of the U.S. is Belle Calloun, chief wire machine operator in a war plant
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Just a change of wire sizes converted this machine from winding coils for radar to radio
Just a change of wire sizes converted this machine from winding coils for radar to radio
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