I think members' apathy regarding the 'concentration camp' idea/theory, is that you haven't provided any proof. Beyond stating that it existed, you haven't done much to assert its overlooked importance in our city. Could you detail the history of the camp, who it held, what kinds of violations caused one to be sent there, when it existed...
Internment camps have been around for far longer than Toronto has been on the map (I know you said 'modern'). From those set up to 'contain' Native Americans at the hands of European explorers to those set up for the same purpose in the Philippines and Cuba, the idea of an internment/concentration camp is much older than you imply. Even if you take the definition of 'concentration camp' to be purely a wartime phenomena, the Brits were interning the Boers fifteen years before you say this thing was set up.
Furthermore, by questioning the our terminology regarding and historical use of such institutions, historiographical study argues that 'dating' such things is almost impossible. Each culture throughout the ages has had ways of dealing with 'the enemy,' most with horrific results. The Romans would have done it, Kings in the middle ages would have done it, pre-modern cultures would have done it, enlightened despots would have done it and here's the clincher - we're still doing it today.
I'm not against the idea that it could have happened in Toronto, you just haven't argued an adequate case; in fact, you haven't really made a case at all. Perhaps some informed words and a little evidence might spur more people into action. After all, if this really was the site of the first camp, something of which I am skeptical, wouldn't UNESCO or at least the municipal/provincial/federal government have recognized it already?
