Re: POW camps near Ottawa

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Posted by Carl DINSDALE <joscol@mb.sympatico.ca> on Wed, 22 Mar 2000 21:02:36 -0600
I‘m not sure about the Ottawa area, but I know there was at least one POW camp for Germans between Petawawa and Chalk River, actually within the Petawawa training area. The graves of the
unfortunate few that died are still tended and marked and more than a few returned to the area after the war, having been so taken by the land.
Carl
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> family history says that my grand father Captain Fred Cowling served at a POW camp at Ottawa was this connected to a specific regiment was it an internment camp or an actual POW .
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Posted by Ian Edwards <iedwards@home.com> on Wed, 22 Mar 2000 20:17:25 -0800
Leanne:
Re your posting to the Canadian Army Home Page -
The age of your grandfather in WW2 might be a good clue. Generally, POWs
were guarded in Canada by members of The Veterans Guard of Canada. They
were organized into independent companies. The Active components guarded
most camps and transported the POWs from Europe to camps across Canada.
To be in the VG one had to be a "veteran" ie. most likely a former
soldier of WW1 vintage. So many of the VG were "old" men of 40 or
slightly more. I don‘t have a list of camps handy, but possibly the camp
at near? Ottawa might be Petawawa which at one point was used to house
communists and other potential subversives.
Ian Edwards
Leanne Bailey wrote:
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> family history says that my grand father Captain Fred Cowling served at a POW camp at Ottawa was this connected to a specific regiment was it an internment camp or an actual POW .
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