Josef Lainck was a German national born on 31 March 1907 in Ochtrup, Westphalia. Lainck emigrated to Canada on a Canadian Pacific ship on 6 July 1927, arriving on 16 July in Quebec City. Lainck travelled west to Edmonton, Alberta on the Canadian Pacific Railway to Edmonton, Alberta where he became a criminal and was deported to Germany in 1938. In Germany he was imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp until freed by the Russians in April 1945.
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Grams, Grant W. "The Story of Josef Lainck: From German Emigrant to Alien Convict and Deported Criminal to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Inmate." Border Crossing 10, no. 2 (2020): 175-188.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/bc.v10i2.1129
https://bordercrossing.uk/bc/article/view/1129
Grams, Grant W. "The Deportation of German Nationals from Canada, 1919 to 1939." Journal of International Migration and Integration 11 (2010): 219-237. DOI:10.1007/s12134-010-0131-y