The conditions here are very poor, so that we cannot go on much longer. We are not getting enough to eat — we are hungry as dogs. Censored letter, Prisoner N. Olynik, Castle Internment Camp, 28 October, 1915 First . . . — — Map (db m312498) HM
During Canada’s first national internment operations in World War One, thousands of immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the majority of Ukrainian origin, some citizens of Canada, were imprisoned as “enemy aliens”. Internment operations . . . — — Map (db m8827) HM
End of the Road On the night of July 14, 1915 sixty prisoners were marshalled off a Canadian Pacific train just west of here and escorted to a barbed wire compound at the end of the unfinished Banff–Laggan (now Lake Louise) road. So . . . — — Map (db m109003) HM