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February 19, 2016

Campaign revived to designate Quebec wartime cemetery a historic site

A cross marks a grave at an internment camp for those of “enemy nationality” at Spirit Lake in Quebec.

MONTREAL - A century ago, more than a thousand innocent men and boys were arrested during the First World War and shipped to an internment camp at Spirit Lake in the Abitibi region of Quebec, 600 km northwest of Montreal.

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