New book sheds light on Vernon, B.C.’s First World War internment camp
history that some might not be aware of is the subject of a new book and it sheds light on a dark chapter in Vernon, B.C.,’s past.“I think it’s important that people know something about the history of their community,” said Larry Gilchrist, president of the Vernon and District Family History Society.
“The area on which W.L. Seaton Secondary sits and MacDonald park was during World War I an internment camp for what was deemed to be enemy aliens.”Those so-called “enemy aliens” were anyone who had a connection to any of the countries Canada was fighting in the First World War.
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