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Europe Resources & Offers / Re: World War 1 internments in UK - bibliography
« on: Tuesday 16 November 21 07:32 GMT (UK)  »
I just noticed another book on similar theme to my last post.

Park prisoners : the untold story of Western Canada's national parks, 1915-1946,, by Waiser, W. A.
Saskatoon : Fifth House Publishers, c1995.  294 pages, illustrations.

I read a review which said that the book covers the lives of "enemy aliens" including Germans who were put to work at building roads, trails and campgrounds in Canada's national parks during WW1 and 2.    It was essentially forced labour, and they were made to live in the parks where they worked.  Gives details about how they got there and what they did; many aaecdotes.  i have not seen it.

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Europe Resources & Offers / Re: World War 1 internments in UK - bibliography
« on: Saturday 22 February 20 02:25 GMT (UK)  »
This book is not UK per se, but could possibly include info on internees shipped off to Canada or provide wider context.  As it hasn't actually come out yet, I haven't seen it.

Civilian Internment In Canada: Histories And Legacies, by Rhonda L. Hinther and Jim Mochoruk.  424 p.   Published February 28, 2020 by the University of Manitoba Press.
ISBN - 10:0887558453
ISBN - 13:9780887558450

Exploring the connections, contrasts, and continuities across the broad range of civilian internments in Canada, this collection seeks to begin a conversation about the laws and procedures that allow the state to criminalize and deny the basic civil liberties of some of its most vulnerable citizens.

It brings together multiple perspectives on the varied internment experiences of Canadians and others from the days of World War One to the present. This volume offers a unique blend of personal memoirs of “survivors” and their descendants, alongside the work of community activists, public historians, and scholars, all of whom raise questions about how and why in Canada basic civil liberties have been (and, in some cases, continue to be) denied to certain groups in times of perceived national crises.

Rhonda L. Hinther is an Associate Professor of History at Brandon University and an active public historian. Prior to joining BU, Hinther served as Director of Research and Curation at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and, before that, as Curator of Western Canadian History at the Canadian Museum of History. Her most recent book, a 2019 Wilson Prize Finalist, is entitled Perogies and Politics: Canada’s Ukrainian Left, 1891-1991 (2018).

Jim Mochoruk has taught at the University of North Dakota since 1993. His books include The People’s Co-op: The Life and Times of a North End Institution (2000) and “Formidable Heritage:” Manitoba’s North and the Cost of Development, 1870 to 1930 (2004). Originally from Winnipeg, Jim is currently working on a book-length study concerning the social and economic history of Winnipeg—and its many real and imagined communities—in the inter-war period.


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Europe Resources & Offers / Re: World War 1 internments in UK - bibliography
« on: Wednesday 22 January 20 06:29 GMT (UK)  »
New book forthcoming looks very interesting:

Enemies in the Empire: Civilian Internment in the British Empire during the First World War, by Stefan Manz and Panikos Panayi.  Oxford University Press, February 2020.  384p.

Abstract:
During the First World War, Britain was the epicentre of global mass internment and deportation operations. Germans, Austro-Hungarians, Turks, and Bulgarians who had settled in Britain and its overseas territories were deemed to be a potential danger to the realm through their ties with the Central Powers and were classified as 'enemy aliens'. A complex set of wartime legislation imposed limitations on their freedom of movement, expression, and property possession. Approximately 50,000 men and some women experienced the most drastic step of enemy alien control, namely internment behind barbed wire, in many cases for the whole duration of the war and thousands of miles away from the place of arrest.

Enemies in the Empire is the first study to analyse British internment operations against civilian 'enemies' during the First World War from an imperial perspective. The narrative takes a three-pronged approach. In addition to a global examination, the volume demonstrates how internment operated on a (proto-) national scale within the three selected case studies of the metropole (Britain), a white dominion (South Africa), and a colony under direct rule (India). Stefan Manz and Panikos Panayi then bring their study to the local level by concentrating on the three camps Knockaloe (Britain), Fort Napier (South Africa), and Ahmednagar (India), allowing for detailed analyses of personal experiences. Although conditions were generally humane, in some cases, suffering occurred. The study argues that the British Empire played a key role in developing civilian internment as a central element of warfare and national security on a global scale.

Link to book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/enemies-in-the-empire-9780198850151?q=useful%20enemies&lang=en&cc=gb#





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Europe Resources & Offers / Re: World War 1 internments in UK - bibliography
« on: Monday 07 November 16 08:24 GMT (UK)  »

The following deal with some interned in Canada. They were likely Canadian residents, but maybe not all of them.  At the very least, it will provide a point of comparison.

No free man: Canada, the Great War, and the enemy alien experience.
by Kordan, Bohdan S.   Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016.   416p.

Enemy aliens, prisoners of war: internment in Canada during the Great War. 
by Kordan, Bohdan S.   Montreal:  McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002.    202p.


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Europe Resources & Offers / Re: World War 1 internments in UK - bibliography
« on: Friday 14 October 16 11:51 BST (UK)  »
Nice new blog about Alexandra Palace internment camp posted by Mareike Barnusch.
Includes several specific names, images of documents, references to other archival sources, and gives you an idea of what exactly is in FO 383.

http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/life-alexandra-palace-internment-camp/

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Canada / Re: Currie family -- Mariposa Twp., Ontario.
« on: Monday 06 June 16 06:40 BST (UK)  »
The Reverend Archibald Currie was the Presbyterian minister to the congregation of "Brock, Reach and Mariposa" from about 1866 to 1888.
I don't know if he's one of yours or not.
He lived in the village of Sonya from 1873, where he bought a house.
Sonya is at the intersection of the 3 above-named townships.
I have a photo of him and a bit of info about his ministry there, but nothing about his family.
He was alive in 1902.

The Presbyterian cemetery which serves Sonya is the McNeil cemetery, which is on the 2nd concession of Brock two.  It is known locally as the Wick cemetery.

Send PM with your email address if you want the info on this fellow's career and photo.

Presbyterian Archives, in Toronto, would likely know more about him such as where he came from and where he was educated, which I do not know.  The photo says he had an M.A.

In addition, I can verify that most of the Scottish settler families in that immediate area came from Argyl.

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Canada / Re: Possible Peterborough Burial sites
« on: Monday 06 June 16 05:48 BST (UK)  »
You might ask the genealogical society for help - http://www.ogs.on.ca/kawartha/

Evidently there are cemetery transcripts or some kind of information for 2 cemeteries at Keene (or perhaps 2 sections of one cemetery - unclear):
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onkbogs/itemincases.pdf

There is also listed some kind of history of St John the Evangelist Church, which is Anglican, although I think it is more recent.

Either the genealogical society or a librarian at Peterborough Public Library should be willing to check those cemetery transcripts for you.  I suggest though that you restrict your query to the ones for Keene so as not to overwhelm the librarian.  I knowthey have these things at the library, under lock and key, as I have been there in the past, but I don't live there and can't help you myself.

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Europe Resources & Offers / Re: World War 1 internments in UK - bibliography
« on: Monday 06 June 16 05:11 BST (UK)  »
Additional item, apparently only in German:

Migranten und Internierte: Deutsche in Glasgow, 1864-1918.  by Stefan Manz. (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, c2003.)  317p., ill., tables, charts.

This is based on the author's PhD thesis of the same name, University of Durham, 2002.

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The Common Room / Re: Have you ever gone to Utah, or thought about it?
« on: Monday 09 May 16 05:59 BST (UK)  »
No, I never got there, and probably won't at this stage of my life.
However, the good news is that they tell me they are planning to put everything online eventually at familysearch.
And I do seem to have enough to keep me busy with interlibrary loan as well as new info coming online and visits to other places.  When would I ever find the time to go to Utah? :-\

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