Don McNair has spent a large chunk of the past two years researching a World War I internment camp that was in Vernon, B.C. Despite being on a small 10-acre lot, McNair said that the Vernon internment camp housed up to 500 prisoners and guards. With three work camps nearby — the Mara Lake, Monashee and Edgewood camps — McNair says there was no gruelling labour to be done at the Vernon camp. Historian Don McNair has been studying the Vernon internment camp for two years and is gearing up to do a presentation on his findings. The research was made possible through grants awarded to the Vernon and District Family History Society by the Endowment Council of the Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund.

Source: CBC News March 03, 2018 21:00 UTC