NEYS WWII LABOUR CAMP

 In the province of Ontario, on the north shore of Lake Superior, in the boundaries of a provincial park, rests the remains of a World War II Prisoner-of-War camp. This park drew me to it because it was where 

The information I am about to record came from a three page pamphlet titled :Neys Camp 100: A Brief History, which was self-described to be an condensed version of the PoW section of a booklet published in the mid-1970s called Inhospitable Shore: A History of Neys Provincial Park.

“Shortly after the onset of World War II, the British government requested the assistance of the Canadaian government to house some 6700 interned persons, as British camps were becoming full. The Department of National Defence in Ottawa then surveyed several locations across Canada as a number of camps were intended to be built. Neys was one of the sites that was surveyed.”