Archives Search
Search only: Library, Archives Advanced Search, Ancestors, Images, Search All
To submit a comment, contact webservices@lac-bac.gc.ca
Warning: Descriptive record is in process. These materials may not yet be available for consultation.
Description found in Archives
Title
Arrangement structure
Date(s)
1919
Place of creation
No place, unknown, or undetermined
Extent
Language of material
English
Scope and content
Item consists of a letter describing events that took place at the Kapuskasing Internment Camp, during the period November 1917 to mid-summer 1919. Original, 12 pages.
Conditions of access
1
Creator / Provenance
Biography / Administrative history
George Macoun born at Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland, emigrated to Canada and served in the Active Militia with Internment Operations from February, 1915 to September, 1919. He enlisted at Kapuskasing, Ontario with the 2nd Canadian Garrison Regiment in September, 1919 and was honourably discharged in May, 1920. He died at Lindsay, Ontario in 1955.
Additional information
Received in 1978, from Miss P. Macoun of Ottawa.
Item previously titled the George Macoun fonds.
Subject heading
1. World War I - Internment operations - Kapuskasing, 1917-1919
2. Kapuskasing Internment Camp, 1917-1919.
Source
Private
Other system control no.
MIKAN no.
102082
- Date modified: