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Date(s)

1948

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

Language of material

English

Scope and content

Fonds consists of a microfilmed autobiographical account, prepared in 1948, in which Oskar Demuth describes his experiences as an internee in Kananaskis, Alta., and Fredericton, N.B. This material is located on microfilm reel M-7495.

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Finding aid

No finding aid

Creator / Provenance

Demuth, Oskar, 1884-ca. 1974.

Biography / Administrative history

Oskar Demuth, businessman and World War II internee, was born in 1884 in Berlin, Germany, and immigrated to Canada in 1913. After an unsuccessful attempt at homesteading, he settled in Winnipeg, Man. where in 1920, he opened a small tobacco shop. Among other things, he sold German language newspapers and operated a lending library in German books. Active in the local German community, in particular a sports club with National Socialist sympathies, he was interned immediately after war broke out in September 1939. After a brief stay in Kananaskis, Alta., he was transferred to a camp near Frederiction, N.B., where he remained for the duration of the war. After the war, he opened a small shop which sold used books as well as German toys, German language cards and other goods of interest to new arrivals from his old homeland.

Additional information

Subject heading

1. Oskar Demuth - Autobiographical, 1948
2. Kananaskis (Alta.), 1948.
3. Kananaskis (Alta.) - Germans - World War II - Internment, 1948
4. Fredericton (N.B.), 1948.
5. World War II - Internments.
6. German Canadians - Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
7. Concentration camps - Canada, 1948.
8. Fredericton (N.B.) - Germans - World War II - Internment, 1948.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

MAINS20265

MIKAN no.

101888