Until 1970, the graves of German prisoners from the First and Second World Wars were scattered across Canada. Those graves, some of them nearly 55 years old, were dug up, their bones exhumed, and then reburied in Kitchener, Ontario.
This page lists the locations of those original cemeteries, some of them well established, others ad hoc – or in one particular case – hidden under a prison yard.
Links, when available, are provided for those cemeteries that have a website.
A total of 148 German POWs in 29 different cemeteries were relocated between July, 1970 and May, 1971.
The original cemeteries the POWs were disintered from (in alphabetical order):
Angler Camp Cemetery, Marathon, Ontario
4 POWs were originally buried at this location
Cataraqui Cemetery, Cataraqui (now Kingston), Ontario
3 POWs were originally buried at this location
City of Lethbridge Cemetery, Lethbridge, Alberta
14 POWs were originally buried at this location
Espanola Public Cemetery, Espanola, Ontario
4 POWs were originally buried at this location
Fort Massey Halifax Military Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1 POW was originally buried at this location
Fredericton Cemetery, Fredericton, New Brunswick
3 POWs were originally buried at this location
Hermitage Cemetery, Fredericton, New Brunswick
2 POWs were originally buried at this location
Hillside Cemetery, Medicine Hat, Alberta
20 POWs were originally buried at this location
Iroquois Falls Public Cemetery, Iroquois Falls, Ontario
16 POWs were originally buried at this location
Lake of the Woods Cemetery, Kenora, Ontario
2 POWs were originally buried at this location
Mickle Memorial Cemetery, Gravenhurst, Ontario
2 POWs were originally buried at this location
Mortlach Cemetery, Mortlach, Saskatchewan
1 POW was originally buried at this location
Mount Hermon Cemetery, Bergerville, Quebec
1 POW was originally buried at this location
Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal, Quebec
5 POWs were originally buried at this location
Mountain View Cemetery, Fort William (now Thunder Bay), Ontario
1 POW was originally buried at this location
Mountain View Cemetery, Lethbridge, Alberta
3 POWs were originally buried at this location
Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery, Montreal, Quebec
2 POWs were originally buried at this location
Park Lawn Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario
10 POWs were originally buried at this location
Pigeon Timber Company Camp 76, Neys, Ontario
1 POW was originally buried at this location
Pinecrest Cemetery, Ottawa, Ontario
2 POWs were originally buried at this location
Prison Yard, Lethbridge Jail, Lethbridge, Alberta
5 executed POWs were originally buried at this location
Queen’s Park Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta
6 POWs were originally buried at this location
Riverside Cemetery, Dauphin, Manitoba
1 POW was originally buried at this location
Riverside Cemetery, Port Arthur, Ontario
25 POWs were originally buried at this location
Rock Mount Cemetery, Iroquois Falls, Ontario
2 POWs were originally buried at this location
Roman Catholic Cemetery, Pembroke, Ontario
2 POWs were originally buried at this location
Sioux Lookout Public Cemetery, Sioux Lookout, Ontario
1 POW was originally buried at this location
St. Andrew’s Cemetery, Port Arthur, Ontario
7 POWs were originally buried at this location
St. Dunstan’s Cemetery, Fredericton, New Brunswick
1 POW was originally buried at this location
Wainwright Cemetery, Wainwright, Alberta
1 POW was originally buried at this location