Camp 130, also known as the Kananaskis Camp and the Camp Seebe was a Canadian prisoner-of-war camp located near Seebe, Alberta. The camp operated from september 1939 to June 1946.[1]

The camp, overlooking Barrier Lake, was founded on September 29, 1939.[2][3] It initially housed German civilians and merchant seamen.[3] In 1940, 44 Italian-Canadians were sent to the camp.[4] In July 1941 the civilian prisoners were transferred to another camp, and guard towers and barbed wire was installed for its new prisoners.[5] The camp eventually held a population of 1000 German soldiers and officers.[3][5]

References

  1. ↑ "Internment Camps: Second World War" (PDF). collectionscanada.gc.ca.
  2. ↑ "The Seebe Camp 130: WWII Internment Camp". goethe.de.
  3. 1 2 3 "Former German PoWs attend Alberta internment camp reunion". cbc.ca.
  4. ↑ "Italian interneesa Canadian story". RMOToday.com.
  5. 1 2 "Alberta Register of Historic Places". hermis.alberta.ca.

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