Canadian German POW Camps

Bowmanville. East of Toronto.

And on Lake of the Woods. They were not on a short leash and paddled their home made kayaks to many surrounding islands They stopped at my dads fishing camp and spent much time talking. The same two POWs came back at other times.

This was quite strange, because at that time my RCAF uncle was a POW in Germany. The young man who was helping my dad then went off to war and died Aug 23, 1944.

I seem to recall that there was no hostility towards the POWs or from them.

What raids were they shot down on? There will be brief bios of them in 'They Shall Grow Not Old'. And we can look up their missions as well.

I think they were satisfied to know they were going to live to see the peace. Who could blame them for not trying to escape? They were in a sportmens paradise.

I'm new as of a few minutes ago and there was a Luftwafte POW camp the next town east of me in Bowmannville, Ontario and for a long while it was a school after WW2. I think it was recently sold . On the history Channel's Secrets Of WW2 they ran something on great escapes and mentioned of one pilot whom escaped in the winter just before Pearl Harbour in 1941 and got caught in Buffalo. He managed to switch trains in Toronto. The really ironic thing is that the tracks pass not far from the Spy training camp(Camp X) in South Oshawa(my home) where Ian Flemming trained.

and ... Monteith Camp near Lake Ontario ('other ranks'

Cheers,