Kate Barker

Kate Barker is an award-winning journalist writing her PhD dissertation on Canada and the 1918 influenza pandemic.

The forgotten victims of a century-old pandemic

by Kate Barker

Thousands were held in internment camps amid horrid conditions. Then influenza hit.

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