IN THE SHADOW OF THE ROCKIES: DIARY OF THE CASTLE MOUNTAIN INTERNMENT CAMP 1915 - 1917

KORDAN, BOHDAN S. & PETER MELNYCKY (Editors)

ISBN 10: 0920862799 / ISBN 13: 9780920862797

Published by Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, Edmonton, AB, 1991

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pp: 144. FIRST EDITION. The book is the story of the more than eight thousand immigrants in Canada from the former Austro-Hungarian Empire who were interned during the years of the First World War. These camps were spread throughout Canada. This book contains the tales of the approximately six hundred who were in the camp in the Banff - Castle Mountain area. It relates the daily routine, the work projects, the diets, weather, and other minutiae. There are vintage photographs throughout; some of the workers and some of the soldiers who ran the operation. The appendices include a prisoners' Roll. This is a near fine copy in a dust jacket with one short, closed tear. This is a complimentary copy given to members of parliament. This copy has a letter laid in to an unnamed member, signed by the Director of the Ukrainian Information Bureau. The paper clip that held the letter and business card has left an impression partly on the front paste down and partly on the free endpaper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: IN THE SHADOW OF THE ROCKIES: DIARY OF THE CASTLE MOUNTAIN INTERNMENT CAMP 1915 - 1917
• Publisher: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, Edmonton, AB
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0920862799
• ISBN 13: 9780920862797
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Weight: 0.83 kilograms
• Seller catalogs:
  • WORLD HISTORY
  • CANADIAN HISTORY
  • SECOND WORLD WAR

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Synopsis

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 across Canada. A camp at Banff/Castle Mountain operated between 1915 and 1917. More than 600 internees were put to work on various projects in Rocky Mountain Park (now Banff National Park), which was being developed at that time as Canada's first national park. The diary of the Banff/Castle Mountain camp provides detailed insight into the practice of Canada's internment policy during the First World War and reveals a unique episode in the human history of Canada's national park system.

About the Author

Bohdan S. Kordan is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Studies, St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan. He has co-edited several documentary and essay collections on statecraft and ethnicity in Canada. Together with Lubomyr Y. Luciuk, he coauthored A Delicate and Difficult Question: Documents in the History of Ukrainians in Canada (1986). His most recent publications include Canada and the Ukrainian Question, 1939-1945 (2001), Enemy Aliens, Prisoners of War: Internment in Canada During the Great War (2002), and A Bare and Impolitic Right: Internment and Ukrainian-Canadian Redress (with Craig Mahovsky) (2004). Peter Melnycky is a research historian with Historic Sites and Archives Service, Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism. He has written extensively on the history and material culture of the early Ukrainian settlement community in Canada. His publications include Shelter, Feed and Dray: A Structural History of the Radway Livery Barn (1989) and Badly Treated in Every Way: The Internment of Ukrainians in Quebec During the First World War.