Researched and written by members of the Vernon & District Family History Society, this book concerns the internment camp that operated in Vernon B.C. during and after World War I. In that time, over 1000 ‘enemy aliens’ from the then AustroHungarian, German, and Ottoman empires passed through its gates. Vernon Internment Camp was one of largest in the country and one of only two camps that interned women and children. In the estimation of the Officer Commanding Internment Operations in Canada, Vernon’s was “the most difficult of our camps.” The book takes you into the lives of the internees and guards with numerous biographical sketches, great photographs from local, national and international sources, details of camp life, and the reactions of Vernon's citizens. There is also information about the neighbouring ‘work camps’ at Mara, Edgewood and Monashee, where prisoners were forced to build roads through the wilderness.

British Columbia Vernon, History, Vernon (B.C.) History

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