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1 Dollar Monteith; Camp 23
| Issuer | Canadian Government Internment Camp 23 (Monteith, Ontario) |
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| Year | 1940-1946 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Plain green paper with a double-rule rectangular border enclosing black letterpress text in three lines. A vertical panel at right bears a sequential serial number. No vignette or ornamental underprint is present. |
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| Obverse lettering | CAMP 23 Value $1.00 Expires on Sept. 30th |
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Camp 23 at Monteith, Ontario was one of the internment camps operated under the War Measures Act, housing civilian internees — primarily Canadians of German, Italian, and Ukrainian origin — alongside prisoners of war. The camp scrip system was a deliberate policy: internees and POWs were permitted to earn wages for labor, but could only spend those earnings within the camp canteen, preventing any accumulation of legal tender that might facilitate escape or outside contact.
Monteith scrip is scarcer than the better-documented camps like Petawawa or Kananaskis, partly because the camp population fluctuated significantly as the war's trajectory shifted Italian and German civilian internees in and out of custody.