I remember my dad telling me about a POW camp in Northern Ontario. The guards would let the germans take rifles out of the camp to go hunting. Conditions were so good that there was usually no fear that they would try to escape. As a matter of fact, in my neighbourhood growing up I can recall some elderly german men that were former POWS in the camp nearby that loved the area so much that after the war they immigrated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...amps_in_Canada
However, this site documents an escape attempt at Camp X. (some audio clips from CBC radio 1981)
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-1642...s_Canada/clip6