Word: petawawa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went out but was in again when war came, and this time he made his big mistake: he publicly advised citizens not to register for conscription. Three days later, a squad of Mounties drove him off to the internment camp at Petawawa, where he stayed for four years...
...Ottawa and Washington it was an nounced that Canada had made great contributions, in both facilities and brain power, to the development of the awesome atomic bomb. Half of the scientists working at the National Research Council's big laboratories in Montreal were Canadians. Near Petawawa, Ont., 120 miles north and west of Ottawa, a 10,000-acre tract had been expropriated, and for more than a year 1,300 men had been working behind barbed wire and under armed guard, clearing land and building an atomic bomb "pilot plant." As for the Government's Eldorado seizure...
Last week 30-odd U. S. publishers, editors, reporters completed a tour of Canada's defenses: infantry training camps, the snappy artillery centre at Petawawa, even snappier Air Force stations at Camp Borden, Trenton, Uplands (Ottawa). They even got a long look at the crowded, guarded port of Halifax and some of the lately traded U. S. destroyers there. Because Canada got into high gear with its war effort only last summer, it cannot have much effect on the war before next year. But Canada has got far enough to be a working defense laboratory, wherein...