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Old 12-06-10, 15:09
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Terry Warner
 
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Default POW camps in Canada

The other day at the barber shop (best source of community intelligence IMHO), a fellow was talking about his profession - undertaker. Everyone has a funeral story, so it was a wide ranging conversation, until he mentioned disinterring 30 or 40 German POWs from a labour camp in Northern Ontario. He had taken a contract from the German Embassy to open each grave in a small camp cemetary and return the remains to Germany. He quoted $1000 each (30 yrs ago) and got the job despite the exhorbitant quote. That was his summer job and paid his next university year, plus replacing his car.
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