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Article: Prairie Prisoners: POWs in Lethbridge During Two World Conflicts.(Book Review)
- Article from:
- Alberta History
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2003 Historical Society of Alberta. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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by Georgia Green Fooks. Lethbridge: Lethbridge Historical Society, Box 974, T1J 4A2. 134 pages, illus., paper, $19.95.
Lethbridge has had a close association with detention camps and prisoner of war camps dating back to the Great War of 1914-18. Within days of the outbreak of war, the local exhibition grounds were turned into a detention camp that housed some 300 internees. The first escape took place less than two weeks after the camp opened, but the biggest escape occurred in 1916 when six men made an 111foot tunnel and disappeared without a trace. By this time there had been just too many escapes so the facility was closed down.
With the outbreak of ...
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