Here’s an article that I wrote a few years ago about the Montreal parishioners who were interned at Spirit Lake Internment Camp. It was published in a book by St. Michael’s Church in 2011 when they celebrated their 100th anniversary. By January 5, 1915, there were 364 “Austrians” (ie, Ukrainians) interned at Spirit Lake.
While doing research for my 2007 novel, Prisoners in the Promised Land, I visited the place where the internment camp had been. I also laid flowers at the internee grave site. It is shameful that this grave site is abandoned and in disarray, on property sold to a farmer.
Never Forget.
