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Title
Arrangement structure
Date(s)
1942
Place of creation
Canada
Extent
Language of material
English
Scope and content
Fonds consists of a brief presented by John Stanton to the Minister of Justice in March 1942, on behalf of Mrs. Bertha Hower, arguing that Mrs. Hower had been unjustly interned.
Conditions of access
1
Finding aid
No finding aid
Creator / Provenance
Biography / Administrative history
Bertha Hower, businesswoman and W.W. II internee, was born in 1904 at Salsberg, Austria-Hungary, and immigrated to Canada in 1928. After a few years on the farm near Everts, Alberta, she took a position as a cook at the Deer Lodge Hotel, in Agassiz, B.C., where she remained from 1935 to 1936, when she opened her own restaurant with a friend at Harrison Lake, B.C. She remained there until her arrest and internment on 27 April, 1940. She was released from internment in 1942.
Additional information
Subject heading
1. Prisoners of war - Canada, 1942
2. John Stanton, 1942.
Source
Private
Other system control no.
MIKAN no.
101645
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