Kordan, Bohdan S.

Enemy Aliens, Prisoners of War : Internment in Canada During the Great War. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (233 pages) - McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History Series ; v.41 . - McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History Series .

Intro -- Contents -- Documents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Nation-Building and the Great War -- 2 Between Ambition and Threat: Canada and the Problem of the Enemy Alien -- 3 Enemy Alien Internment: Obligations and Responsibilities -- 4 The Policy and Practice of Canadian Internment: A Comparative Perspective -- 5 The Prize of War: Internment in the Canadian Rockies -- 6 War, Patriotism, and Internment: The Debate over Otherness -- Notes -- Appendix: Prisoners' Rolls -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Some eight thousand immigrant-settlers of "enemy" nationality - so called enemy aliens - were interned as civilian prisoners of war in Canada during World War I. The majority, deemed second-class prisoners, were sent to the hinterland of the Canadian Rock.

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