Brandon’s Prisoner of War Camp 1914
11/27/2009 at 8:23 AM
November 27th 1914 saw the arrival of eighty so-called prisoners of war (P.O.W.). They were German, and Austrian nationals living in the Canadian west who arrived in Brandon aboard a special C.N.R. train guarded by the Fort Garry Horse Guard.
Crowds of spectators eagerly watched as the prisoners, among them ‘notability’ F. G. Hoffman, who had been “arrested at the Pas on suspicion of Spying in Canada for the German Government,” and many others “apprehended while seeking to leave the country, intent upon joining the Kaiser’s army” marched towards the Fairgrounds where the Winter Fair Building was to take on a new status, a use that the original directorate had not intended, an Internment prison.
I am wondering out loud as to whether there has been a Government apology to these families?
Source: Brandon a City by G. F. Barker.
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