Already in 1941 Great Britain moved 2.943 POW to Canada. Regarding to the numbers by the British War Office in Canada were: | | Year | Quarter | Number | | Year | Quarter | Number | | | 1941 | I | 2.740 | 1944 | I | 19.140 | | II | 2.950 | | II | 21.400 | | III | 2.940 | | III | 26.210 | | IV | 2.940 | | IV | 31.930 | | 1942 | I | 2.940 | 1945 | I | 33.700 | | II | 4.640 | | II | 33.730 | | III | 7.630 | | III | 33.750 | | IV | 12.380 | | IV | 33.700 | | 1943 | I | 16.540 | 1946 | I | 25.000 | | II | 17.1110 | | II | 11.200 | | III | 17.900 | | III | 5.390 | | IV | 18.350 | | IV | 1.670 |
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Additionally to the highest number of 33.798 POW came 6.437 civil internees, members of the merchant marine and refugees.
In the beginning were most prisoners belonging to the upper and middle ranks of the Navy and Air-Force and they controlled the life in the camps. Much of them were convinced Nazi's especially in the beginning of the war. Even two murder of a kangaroo court were registered at camp Medicine Hat. Out of that reason were even at the end of the war still 207 men in "protective custody". In total 162 prisoners died in Canada.
Camps:
The camps were spread all over the Canadian territory. In the beginning the camps were marked by letters and later by numbers:
| Later | Earlier | Place | Time |
| 10 | | Chatham | 1944, 1945/46 |
| 10 | | Fingal | 1945/46 |
| 20 | C | Gravenhurst | 1940 - 1946 |
| 21 | F | Espanola | 1940 - 1943 |
| 22 | M | Mimico | 1940 - 1944 |
| 23 | C | Monteith | 1940 - 1946 |
| 30 | | Bowmanville | 1941 - 1945 |
| 31 | F | Kingston | 1940 - 1943 |
| 32 | H | Hull | 1941 - (?) |
| 33 | F | Petawawa | 1942 - 1946 |
| 40 | A | Farnham | 1940/41, 1942/43, 1944 - 1946 |
| 42 | N | Newington (Sherbrooke) | 1942 - 1946 |
| 44 | | Grande Lygne | 1943 - 1946 |
| 45 | | Sorel | 1945/46 |
| 70 | B | Fredericton | 1941 - 1945 |
| 100 | W | Neys | 1944 - 1943, 1944 - 1946 |
| 101 | | Angler | 1941 - 1946 |
| 130 | | Seebe | 1939 - 1946 |
| 132 | | Medicine Hat | 1943 - 1945 |
| 133 | | Ozada | 1942 |
| 133 | | Lethbridge | 1942 - 1946 |
| 135 | | Wainright | 1945 - 1946 |
In addition to the main camps came branch camps and labor camps. In total are 40 camps known in Canada [details]
Postal service:
The postal service broke down after V-E. A further disadvantage was the long distance of transportation. Nevertheless the prisoners wrote a lot of letters and postcards even a reply took very long.
Labor:
In the beginning the factor labor was not important. Mid 1944 the prisoners had to work mostly in the agriculture and forests. The employment hat the highest rate in summer 1945. The POW worked 8 hours a day. Experts got 50 cents a hour and the others in the agriculture got 20 cents. A screening was made before a POW could work and as result came out in 1945 that just 1% were anti-nazi.
Escapes:
600 prisoners tried to escape and on this number were in 1947 still 17 not recaptured. 2 were alleged drowned, 1 in the U.S.A., 1 in Mexico and the rest still in Canada.
Repatriation:
In 1945 Great Britain got interest in the German prisoners at Canadian soil as laborer in their own country. Starting in 1946 the transports rolled to the isle. Different than the prisoners in the U.S.A they knew that their destination wasn't the homeland.
Documents:
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