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Kapuskasing Prisoners of War Cemetery

Memorials	:	1
Location	:	Kapuskasing, Cochrane District, Canada
Website	:	www.kapuskasing.ca/en/living/Cemetery.aspx
Coordinate	:	49.4150000, -82.4587000
Description	:	In the early years of the twentieth century, Canada recruited large numbers of people from eastern European countries to settle the Prairies and to build up its labour force. When the First World War broke out in August 1914, Canadians' attitude towards immigrants from countries under German or Austro-Hungarian rule suddenly changed. They were now regarded as potential enemy sympathizers rather than valuable contributors to Canada's economic development. The government's solution to this perceived threat to domestic security was to establish, under the War Measures Act, a series of internment camps across the country to detain enemy aliens and prisoners... Read More	In the early years of the twentieth century, Canada recruited large numbers of people from eastern European countries to settle the Prairies and to build up its labour force. When the First World War broke out in August 1914, Canadians' attitude towards immigrants from countries under German or Austro-Hungarian rule suddenly changed. They were now regarded as potential enemy sympathizers rather than valuable contributors to Canada's economic development. The government's solution to this perceived threat to domestic security was to establish, under the War Measures Act, a series of internment camps across the country to detain enemy aliens and prisoners of war for the duration of hostilities. Of the twenty-four camps in Canada, six were in Ontario: at Fort Henry in Kingston; at the militia camp in Petawawa; at Stanley Barracks on the CNE grounds in Toronto; at the local armories in Niagara Falls and Sault Ste. Marie; and Kapuskasing, in a camp carved out of the bush by the prisoners themselves. The Kapuskasing camp was one of the largest and longest operating of the camps. The internment camp at Kapuskasing served two purposes for the government: it confined persons who supposedly posed a security risk, and it used their labour to clear forest for an experimental farm and develop new territory for future settlement. Kapuskasing is located in the Great Lakes drainage basin that was discovered during construction of the National Transcontinental Railway (later Canadian National). Authorities hoped to open the Clay Belt for settlement but it was first necessary to develop and test hardy food crops that might grow in such a harsh climate. A site for a federal experimental farm was provided by the Ontario government on a tract of 1,282 acres that lay west of the Kapuskasing River and south of the newly-built railway line. There was no human habitation at Kapuskasing at that time, merely an abandoned suveyors' camp at a railway siding known as Macpherson Station. The name, Kapuskasing, was not adopted until 1917. The second phase of the Kapuskasing camp was initially marked by unrest and confrontation. In the fall of 1917, the prisoners went on strike and refused to work for three months. After that, the camp entered "a weary period of hard work and interminable waiting". The strain of monotony and confinement intensified after the Armistice was declared in November 1918. Troops and prisoners alike cursed the slowness of deliberations at the Congress of Versailles. In the summer of 1919, it was decided to move the internees from all the camps but a lack of available steamship accommodation to transport them to Europe made the process agonizingly slow. Only three camps remained in operation at this point. Kapuskasing was the last to close, on February 24, 1920. The camp buildings were subsequently sold by tender and torn down. The only physical reminder of the Kapuskasing internment camp is the small cemetery containing the graves of thirty-two prisoners that is situated across from the town's public cemetery.

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Coordinate: 49.4183700, -82.4633400

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7. Cimetière Riverside
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13. Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs Cemetery
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14. St. John's Anglican Cemetery
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Coordinate: 48.2388940, -82.4353330

15. Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Pioneer Cemetery
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16. Timmins Memorial Cemetery
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Coordinate: 48.4549100, -81.3335700

17. St Anthony's Roman Catholic Cemetery
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Coordinate: 48.4525310, -81.3321440

18. Tisdale Cemetery
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19. Whitney Cemetery
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Coordinate: 48.4823400, -81.1820800

20. Porquis Union Cemetery
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Coordinate: 48.7102203, -80.8128586

21. McIntosh Springs Cemetery
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Coordinate: 48.6377500, -80.8636110

22. Old Abitibi Pioneer Cemetery
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Coordinate: 48.7763940, -80.6916660

23. Abitibi Cemetery
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Coordinate: 48.7691252, -80.6920910

24. Kelso Goldlands Cemetery
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Coordinate: 48.6673890, -80.7895110

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