In the Shadow of the Rockies: Diary of the Castle Mountain Internment Camp 1915-1917

by Bohdan S. Kordan

It is a little-known fact that during the First World War and in the immediate postwar period (1914-1920), Canadian Internment Operations imprisoned more than 8,000 individuals. The majority of those interned were civilian non-combatants, Ukrainians and other immigrants who had come to Canada from the Austro-Hungarian Empire to work in industry or to settle on western homesteads. Twenty-four receiving stations and internment camps were established...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0920862799
• ISBN13: 9780920862797
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Length: 145 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.