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1 Dollar Ontario; Camp 10
| Issuer | Camp 10 (Ontario) |
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| Year | 1944-1946 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Plain yellow-ochre voucher printed in black letterpress within a single thin rectangular border. The camp designation CAMP 10 appears in bold capitals at the upper centre, with the denomination VALUE $1.00 in large bold type below. A vertical serial number panel is ruled off at the right margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | CAMP 10 Value $1.00 |
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Canadian prisoner of war camps issued scrip to German and Italian POWs under the Geneva Convention's requirement that internees be compensated for labor. Camp 10 was located at Arnprior, Ontario — one of dozens of such facilities scattered across Canada that processed the substantial influx of Axis prisoners transferred from Britain beginning in 1940. The scrip was deliberately designed to be worthless outside the camp perimeter, preventing its use as escape currency.
POW camp scrip from this period survives in wildly uneven quantities — some camp issues are well documented, others barely so. Camp 10 material sits toward the scarcer end of the Canadian POW series.