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Whitewater was a labour camp for German prisoners-of-war in Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba, Canada. Operating from 1943 to 1945, the camp was built on the northeast shore of Whitewater Lake, approximately 300 kilometres (190 mi) north-west of Winnipeg. The camp consisted of fifteen buildings and housed 440 to 450 prisoners of war. [1] [2]
A labor camp (or labour camp, see spelling differences) or work camp is a detention facility where inmates are forced to engage in penal labor as a form of punishment. Labor camps have many common aspects with slavery and with prisons (especially prison farms). Conditions at labor camps vary widely depending on the operators.
With three work camps located in British Columbia, those interned found "there was no greuling labour to be done at the Vernon Camp." [ 9 ] The Mara Lake, Monashee and Edgewood camps—all located in the Okanagan Valley—contributed to lasting infrastructure projects in the region, such as building roads linking Vernon and Kelowna to the Trans ...
Sisters Helena and Barbara Stefaniak had their worlds turned upside down after the start of World War II. The sisters, who were living in Poland, were separated and put into work camps as teens ...
Until the late 1950s, when the federal government shifted to a day school integration model, residential schools were severely underfunded and often relied on the forced labour of their students to maintain their facilities, although it was presented as training for artisanal skills. The work was arduous, and severely compromised the academic ...
In November of 1932 camps started in eastern Canada and immediately housed over 2000 men. [3] To cut costs, the government set up these camps in or in close proximity to existing military facilities and used the military's personnel and administrative experience to keep the camps running effectively. [2] Each camp worked on "projects"; British ...
The 1990s saw a major push of student activism as labour and social movements were invigorated to fight the massive cut backs initiated by the governing Liberal Party of Canada. In Quebec, the 1995 referendum exposed the crisis of confederation, which the communists argued was rooted in the capitalist inequality of nations and included the ...
Letter from Masanjia is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Leon Lee and released in 2018. [1] The film profiles the case of Sun Yi, a Chinese Falun Gong practitioner turned political prisoner who was responsible for exposing significant human rights abuses at the Masanjia Labor Camp when his letter was found by Oregon resident Julie Keith in a box of Halloween decorations, and made ...