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Enemy Aliens interned in Canada are paid 20 cents a day for their work cutting wood and improving campsites
Enemy Aliens interned in Canada are paid 20 cents a day for their work cutting wood and improving campsites

Enemy Aliens interned in Canada are paid 20 cents a day for their work cutting wood and improving campsites

Date3/23/1940
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  • Enemy Aliens interned in Canada are paid 20 cents a day for their work cutting wood and improving campsites
  • Enemy Aliens interned in Canada are paid 20 cents a day for their work cutting wood and improving campsites. These pictures are taken at Kananaskis; unofficially called Camp Kan-A-Nazi; located in the Rockies; one of two such camps in the Dominion. The other is at Petawawa; Ont. Two prisoners who escaped and were recaptured have been sentenced to two years in prison
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Original Toronto Star caption: Enemy Aliens interned in Canada are paid 20 cents a day for their work cutting wood and improving campsites. These pictures are taken at Kananaskis; unofficially called Camp Kan-A-Nazi; located in the Rockies; one of two such camps in the Dominion. The other is at Petawawa; Ont. Two prisoners who escaped and were recaptured have been sentenced to two years in prison
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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_0019133F
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      Kananaskis by prisoners is in the Rockiest wast of Calgary, of the camps enemy aliens are interned [Incomplete]
      Kananaskis by prisoners is in the Rockiest wast of Calgary, of the camps enemy aliens are interned [Incomplete]
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      3/12/1940
      New York, Aug. 1-Eighty-seven enemy aliens, one a Japanese possessing about two dozen maps showing air and sea distances in the Pacific ocean area, we(...)
      New York, Aug. 1-Eighty-seven enemy aliens, one a Japanese possessing about two dozen maps showing air and sea distances in the Pacific ocean area, we(...)
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      8/1/1942
      Campsites in provincial parks are often so full of non-residents that people of Ontario are turned away on a Friday night, reader says below. I do not(...)
      Campsites in provincial parks are often so full of non-residents that people of Ontario are turned away on a Friday night, reader says below. I do not(...)
      Loek, Dick
      6/6/1973
      Campsites like this should be created in Claremont Conservation Park
      Campsites like this should be created in Claremont Conservation Park
      Roworth, Eddy
      8/27/1970
      Charged: Jasvir Singh, left, and Rolf Nygren charged yesterday with smuggling aliens
      Charged: Jasvir Singh, left, and Rolf Nygren charged yesterday with smuggling aliens
      Combs, Erin
      7/13/1987
      Hiding place: Four aliens were caught entering the United States stuffed in this opening under the sleeper cab of a truck
      Hiding place: Four aliens were caught entering the United States stuffed in this opening under the sleeper cab of a truck
      Mahler, John
      5/20/1983
      U.S. border patrol agents Ron Chandler (left) and Pete Larrabee check the bus station in Buffalo in their search for aliens entering the States illega(...)
      U.S. border patrol agents Ron Chandler (left) and Pete Larrabee check the bus station in Buffalo in their search for aliens entering the States illega(...)
      Lennon, Frank
      2/23/1973
      $2.50 paid for a day's parking yesterday in the Toronto Parking Authority's underground garage at City Hall, but today it's 25 cents for each half hou(...)
      $2.50 paid for a day's parking yesterday in the Toronto Parking Authority's underground garage at City Hall, but today it's 25 cents for each half hou(...)
      Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
      1/31/1974
      Reford Francottie, 48, who was kept in jail for 11 days because he couldn't raise $20 bail after being charged with the theft of 60 cents, leaves cour(...)
      Reford Francottie, 48, who was kept in jail for 11 days because he couldn't raise $20 bail after being charged with the theft of 60 cents, leaves cour(...)
      Darrell, Dick
      4/14/1971
      It was 20 cents a pint when retiring bartender Jimmy Robertson, 71, first started slinging beer at the Winchester Hotel 43 years ago, and its now 70 cents
      It was 20 cents a pint when retiring bartender Jimmy Robertson, 71, first started slinging beer at the Winchester Hotel 43 years ago, and its now 70 cents
      Slaughter, Mike
      7/11/1977
      Under two bits: You can get a tax-free peanut-butter-on-soda-cracker special for 20 cents at Fran's Restaurants - one way owner Fran Deck is protesting move to tax meals over 25 cents.
      Under two bits: You can get a tax-free peanut-butter-on-soda-cracker special for 20 cents at Fran's Restaurants - one way owner Fran Deck is protesting move to tax meals over 25 cents.
      Beaty, Keith
      6/9/1982
      Two items Jack Himself Cohen won't sell are tiny china plates bearing picture of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill he paid 50 cents for 25years ago.
      Two items Jack Himself Cohen won't sell are tiny china plates bearing picture of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill he paid 50 cents for 25years ago.
      Teskey, Frank
      6/13/1972