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A national exhibit at Cave & Basin will remember Austro-Hungarian interned, finally

Few Canadians know about Canada’s first national internment operations. Those transported here in 1915 did not revel in the grandeur of the Canadian Rockies.

Photographs courtesy of Lubomyr Luciuk
Remembering: Former residents of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were forced into internment camps at the time, like this one which was opened on July 14, 1915. These labourer camps remained a common sight around Banff until the summer of 1917 when those who hadn’t escaped were paroled to work elsewhere, released, or conveyed to other lock-ups. Some would remain imprisoned until June 1920, almost two years after the Great War ended.

 

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A national exhibit at Cave & Basin will remember Austro-Hungarian interned, finally

Few Canadians know about Canada’s first national internment operations. Those transported here in 1915 did not revel in the grandeur of the Canadian Rockies.

Photographs courtesy of Lubomyr Luciuk
Remembering: Former residents of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were forced into internment camps at the time, like this one which was opened on July 14, 1915. These labourer camps remained a common sight around Banff until the summer of 1917 when those who hadn’t escaped were paroled to work elsewhere, released, or conveyed to other lock-ups. Some would remain imprisoned until June 1920, almost two years after the Great War ended.

 

  

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