Historical Markers in Castle Junction, Alberta

By Kevin Craft, September 7, 2017

Wideview of Castle Camp Marker

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1 ► Alberta, Banff National Park, Castle Junction — Castle Camp — Internment in Banff National Park —

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 —

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 — Internment Camp / Camp d'internement —

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

4 ► Alberta, Banff National Park, Castle Junction — Storm Mountain — Mont Storm —

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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