Karen Autio

Children’s Author | Editor | Presenter

Internment and Enemy Aliens

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List of internment camps in Canada during the First World War


Map of internment camps in Canada during the First World War


Pamphlet with letter written by nine-year-old Katie Domytryk to her interned father


Further information about enemy aliens and internment camps can be found in the books listed below:

SILVER THREADS by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

THE STAR SUPPER (Our Canadian Girl series) by Troon Harrison

PRISONERS IN THE PROMISED LAND: THE UKRAINIAN INTERNMENT DIARY OF ANYA SOLONIUK, SPIRIT LAKE, QUEBEC, 1914 (Dear Canada Series) by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

LESIA’S DREAM by Laura Langston

DANCE OF THE BANISHED by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Port Arthur Daily News, January 15, 1915
General Otter Coming to Arrange for Internment

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