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50 Cents Lethbridge; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Internment Camp 133, Lethbridge, Alberta |
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| Year | 1942-1945 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-ochre ticket-format voucher with black letterpress print. The large denomination numeral '50c' occupies the centre, flanked on the left by a vertical strip bearing 'P.W.C.' and 'Internment Camp 133', and below by 'LETHBRIDGE / ALBERTA'. A serial number appears at the upper right. |
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| Reverse description | Plain yellow-ochre paper with no printed design or lettering; the reverse is entirely blank. |
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Internment Camp 133 at Lethbridge held the largest concentration of Japanese-Canadian and Japanese prisoner-of-war internees in Canada during the Second World War, at its peak housing several thousand men. The camp scrip issued there — including this 50-cent denomination — was a deliberate closed-economy measure, ensuring that internees could not accumulate Dominion currency that might facilitate escape or outside contact. Bulman Brothers, a Winnipeg commercial printer with no particular security printing pedigree, produced the series under contract.
The scrip was redeemable only within camp canteen facilities and was voided at repatriation.