Park Prisoners the Untold Story of Western Canada's National Parks
$35.00 USD • Used
black cloth, dust jacket, x, 294 pages : illustrations, map, portraits, index, 26 cm., CONTENTS: Aliens ,Relief orkers,Transients Conchies,"Japs",Nazis, "this book tells the startling and little-k...
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black cloth, dust jacket, x, 294 pages : illustrations, map, portraits, index, 26 cm., CONTENTS: Aliens ,Relief orkers,Transients Conchies,"Japs",Nazis, "this book tells the startling and little-known history of the labour camps that once existed in Canada's mountain and prairie national parks. Between 1915 and 1946, some ten thousand men were put to work in western Canada's national parks. They were the country's unwanted-unskilled workers, the jobless and the homeless, conscientious objectors, percieved enemies of the state, and prisoners of war.These men had commited no crimes."
Product Info
ISBN: 1895618657
ISBN-13: 9781895618655
Publisher: Fifth House
Year: 1995
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
First Edition
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HarryEBagleyBooks
Address: P.O. Box 691 Fredericton, New Brunswick
Website: https://www.bagbooks.com
Country: Canada
