Castle Internment Camp

Where we are staying, Protection Mountain, is on an alternative route through the Lake Louise area.  It is really the old highway.  The new one is under construction, so we enjoy taking this "back road" to get to different places around the park.  There are lots of signs and turnouts along here, but one that particularly struck me was the site of an internment camp used during World War I.

 It seems that people were invited to Canada before the war because they needed laborers.  Then, during the war, and depression, they didn't need  or want these people, and so they rounded then up and put them in internment camps.

 After the war, when there were labor shortages, they were released.

  They were primarily Ukrainians, of which there are some large settlements currently in the surrounding areas.

They worked on the road we are traveling, and they even had them work on a golf course!  The cold and lack of food and warm clothing was severe.

This story sounds so familiar!  We did some almost identical things in the US during that time.

 The "Castle" part of the name refers to a very large mountain behind the camp called Castle Mountain.