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[[Image:CFBPetawawa.JPG|thumb|500px|The main entrance to Garrison Petawawa.]]
'''Garrison Petawawa''', is a located in [[Petawawa, Ontario]]. It is operated as an army base by the [[Canadian Army]].

==Garrison facts==

(contracted; show full)oad was reached during 1943 when approximately 20,000 troops were undergoing training at one time. As in the previous war, Petawawa was the site of an internment camp. The camp's official designation was Internment Camp No.33; located at Centre Lake it held 645 civilian internees. There were 28 different nationalities, the majority being Italian and [[German people]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Cumbo|first=Enrico|title=Sports and Inter-Ethnic Relations at Camp Petawawa|journal=Polyphony|date=Spring
/–Summer 1985|volume=7|issue=1|page=31|url=http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/polyphony/sports_art3.html}}</ref>

In 1947, the training of militia and regular units of the [[Canadian Army]] resumed. The [[Royal Canadian Dragoons]] and 1st Battalion, [[The Royal Canadian Regiment]] were moved to Camp Petawawa in 1948. Upon being given the status of a permanent camp, it was officially designated " Camp Petawawa" in May 1951. During the next few years construction continued in order to a(contracted; show full)==References==
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{{Canadian Forces Bases}}

[[Category:Canadian Forces bases in Ontario|Petawawa]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Renfrew County]]
[[Category:World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Canada]]