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Historical Markers in Castle Junction, Alberta

 
Wideview of Castle Camp Marker image, Touch for more information
By Kevin Craft, September 7, 2017
Wideview of Castle Camp Marker
1 Alberta, Banff National Park, Castle Junction — Castle CampInternment in Banff National Park
On Bow Valley Parkway (Provincial Highway 1A) 4.3 kilometers west of Banff-Windermere Highway (Provincial Highway 93), on the right when traveling west.
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
2 Alberta, Banff National Park, Castle Junction — Castle Mountain Internment Camp
On Bow Valley Parkway (Alberta Route 1A) 4.3 kilometers west of Banff-Windermere Highway (Alberta Route 93), on the right when traveling west.
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
3 Alberta, Banff National Park, Castle Junction — Storm MountainMont Storm
On Bow Valley Parkway (Provincial Highway 1A) 2.4 kilometers west of Banff Windermere Parkway, on the right when traveling east.
ENGLISH INSCRIPTION Mountains create their own weather As winds swirl around and rise above these massive barriers, clouds build up and bring the rain and snowstorms for which Storm Mountain was named. Travellers . . . Map (db m82917)
 
 
  
  
 
 
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