On Saturday, Sept. 6th, the Princeton Museum will be hosting historian Don McNair. He will be giving a talk on the Vernon Internment Camp during WW1 at 3 p.m. in the Princeton Museum. Admission by donation.
Light refreshments will be available.
This research project of the Vernon & District Family History Society uncovered a vast amount of information concerning the internment of "enemy aliens" in BC's interior after the outbreak of hostilities in 1914. Ukrainians, Poles, Croatians, and other subjects of the Austro-Hungarian Empire predominated, but Vernon Internment Camp focused on the detention of Germans, mostly young men but also several families.
They formed an isolated, contentious, and despised enclave at the north end of Vernon, a town that profited by hosting a military training camp at the south end as well. A rich photo collection enables the story to be told with plenty of human details of the prisoners and the troops that guarded them.
