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Amherst, Nova Scotia

Camp Opened: April 17, 1915

Camp Closed: September 27, 1919

Located on the premises of what is now Casey Concrete in Amherst, Cumberland County, at 96 Park Street. , Amherst, Nova Scotia

• 1914/07/30 Montreal Gazette No Call yet Received
• 1914/08/03 Montreal Gazette German Ships off Coast
• 1914/08/17 Halifax Chronicle No Desire to See War in Canada
• 1914/10/27 Vancouver Province Arrested Three Germans
• 1915/03/31 Halifax Chronicle Detention Camp for Aliens at Amherst
• 1915/03/31 Montreal Gazette New Rules for Federal Prisons
• 1915/04/19 Vancouver World Dresden Prisoners Landed
• 1915/04/19 Manitoba Free Press German Sailors Reach St. John
• 1915/04/19 Toronto Daily Star Prisoners from Jamaica
• 1915/05/04 Halifax Chronicle Interned Men for Amherst
• 1915/05/26 Kitchener Daily British Whig Sailors Held at Amherst
• 1915/06/04 Halifax Chronicle Dane Arrested and Imprisoned as German Spy Released
• 1915/06/08 Edmonton Bulletin Interned at Amherst, NS
• 1915/06/08 Edmonton Bulletin Interned at Amherst, NS
• 1915/06/25 Edmonton Journal Alien Enemy Killed
• 1915/06/25 Montreal Gazette Alien Prisoner Killed
• 1915/06/25 Toronto Globe German Prisoner Shot Dead by Guard
• 1915/06/25 Globe German Prisoner Shot Dead By Guard
• 1915/06/25 Winnipeg Tribune German, Interned in NS, Hits Guard, is Shot and Killed
• 1915/06/25 Sault Star Interned German Shot Dead at Amherst, NS
• 1915/06/25 Edmonton Bulletin Is Killed while Trying to Escape
• 1915/06/25 Edmonton Bulletin Is Killed while Trying to Escape
• 1915/06/25 Brandon Daily Sun Prisoner Killed Following Attack on Camp Guard
• 1915/06/25 Vancouver World Prisoner of War Slain by Guard
• 1915/06/25 Halifax Chronicle Prisoners of War Made Bold Attempt to Escape
• 1915/06/26 Montreal Gazette Alien under Detention
• 1915/07/21 Steaua Noastra Mica Publicitate: Caut
• 1915/08/17 Winnipeg Tribune Miners on Strike over Aline Labor
• 1915/08/20 Winnipeg Tribune German Threatens to Blow Up NS Bridge
• 1915/08/23 Toronto Daily News Says Germans are Ill-Treated Here
• 1915/08/23 Vancouver World Seek Excuse for Frightfulness
• 1915/08/24 Montreal Gazette Amherst Camp Germans have No Complaint
• 1915/08/24 Edmonton Journal Amherst Prisoners Kindly Treated By All In Authority
• 1915/08/24 Toronto Daily News Amherst Prisoners Will Be Inspected
• 1915/08/24 Vancouver World Cabinet Takes Up German Complaint
• 1915/08/24 Winnipeg Tribune German Captives in NS Complain
• 1915/08/24 Vancouver World Germans at Amherst
• 1915/08/24 Sault Star Germany Claims Amherst Prisoners are Ill-Treated
• 1915/08/24 Edmonton Bulletin Germany Threatens to Treat Canadian Prisoners with Greater Severity
• 1915/08/24 Edmonton Bulletin Germany Threatens to Treat Canadian Prisoners with Greater Severity
• 1915/08/24 Kitchener Daily British Whig Miners Return to Work
• 1915/08/24 Ottawa Journal Not One Complaint from Amherst Huns
• 1915/08/24 Toronto Daily Star Ottawa to Take it Up
• 1915/08/24 Halifax Chronicle The Alien Prisoners at Amherst are Well-Treated
• 1915/08/24 Globe Un-Founded Story of Prisoners Ill-Treated
• 1915/08/24 Toronto Globe Unfounded Story of Prisoners Ill-Treated
• 1915/08/25 Ottawa Journal A Few Soreheads Caused Complaint
• 1915/08/25 Montreal Gazette Amherst Investigation
• 1915/08/26 Montreal Gazette Amherst Camp Enquiry
• 1915/08/28 Winnipeg Tribune A Samonian Touch
• 1915/08/28 Brandon Daily Sun Are We Too Easy
• 1915/08/28 Edmonton Journal Huns at Amherst Not Abused, Says General Hughes
• 1915/09/01 Western Globe Inspecting Alien Camps in Canada
• 1915/09/01 Western Globe Inspecting Alien Camps in Canada
• 1915/09/04 Toronto Daily Star Amherst Prison Camp All Anyone Could Wish
• 1915/09/06 Halifax Chronicle German Prisoners of War at Amherst are Well Treated
• 1915/09/13 Brandon Daily Sun About 7000 in Prisoner Camps
• 1915/09/14 Vancouver World Sympathizers and Escaped Germans
• 1915/09/15 Toronto Globe Escaped Germans Caught in the Bay of Fundy
• 1915/09/15 Globe Escaped Germans Caught in the Bay of Fundy
• 1915/09/15 Edmonton Bulletin Escaped Prisoners Caught
• 1915/09/15 Edmonton Bulletin Escaped Prisoners Caught
• 1915/09/23 Vernon News German Prisoners Escape from Amherst
• 1915/10/30 Vancouver World Brought Back
• 1915/12/02 Toronto Daily News Interned German Officers in Halifax Camp Want to be Taken Out to See the Sights
• 1915/12/03 Toronto Daily News Interned German Prisoners In an Exhibition of Skill
• 1915/12/14 Vancouver World Interned German Prisoners Making Merry
• 1915/12/24 Halifax Chronicle Fritz Vidal has Been Captured
• 1916/01/13 Winnipeg Tribune German Prisoners Removed to Amherst
• 1916/01/18 Vancouver World Twelve Germans Escape
• 1916/01/19 Montreal Gazette 11 Interned Huns Dig 150 ft. Tunnel and are at Large
• 1916/01/19 Sault Star 12 War Prisoners Made Their Escape from Alien Camp
• 1916/01/19 Vancouver World Eleven Men Arrested
• 1916/01/20 Manitoba Free Press Aliens Captured in United States
• 1916/01/20 Halifax Chronicle Captured Eleven of the Escaped German Prisoners
• 1916/01/20 Brandon Daily Sun Escaped Aliens Are Recaptured
• 1916/01/20 Toronto Globe Four of Escaped Germans Captured
• 1916/01/20 Globe Four of Escaped Germans Captured
• 1916/01/21 Winnipeg Tribune 7 Foe Prisoners are Recaptured
• 1916/01/21 Vancouver World All but One Caught
• 1916/01/21 Montreal Gazette Almost Succeeded in Escaping Again
• 1916/01/21 Manitoba Free Press Become US Citizens
• 1916/01/21 Manitoba Free Press Germans Caught
• 1916/01/21 Edmonton Journal Seven Escaped Prisoners Caught; Four in US
• 1916/01/22 Toronto Globe Seven Escaped Germans Have Been Recaptured
• 1916/01/22 Globe Seven Escaped Germans Have Been Recaptured
• 1916/01/27 Winnipeg Tribune Take 2 Germans off US Vessel
• 1916/01/27 Montreal Gazette Took 2 Huns off US Ship
• 1916/01/27 Sault Star Two Germans Were Taken From U.S. Tug Ramos at St. John
• 1916/01/28 Toronto Globe Glad to be Interned
• 1916/01/28 Globe Glad to Be Interned
• 1916/02/14 Edmonton Bulletin Officer Blamed
• 1916/02/14 Edmonton Bulletin Officer Blamed
• 1916/02/16 Vancouver World Officer Under Arrest
• 1916/03/03 Globe Escape of Prisoners Was Facilitated
• 1916/03/03 Toronto Globe Escape of Prisoners was Facilitated?
• 1916/03/03 Halifax Chronicle Says Commander Aided Prisoners to Escape
• 1916/03/03 Ottawa Journal Seeks Information Regarding Escape
• 1916/03/15 Montreal Gazette Cloran can Name Traitors in Canada
• 1916/03/15 Globe Germans Encouraged to Escape from Camp
• 1916/03/15 Toronto Globe Germans Encouraged to Escape from Camp?
• 1916/03/15 Toronto Daily Star Say Bribes Bought Aliens Freedom
• 1916/03/31 Ottawa Journal Senator Cloran States That He Did Not Direct His Attack On Col. Morris
• 1916/05/29 Winnipeg Tribune To Free 1000 Interned Aliens for Mine Work
• 1916/05/30 Edmonton Bulletin Thousand Aliens to be Released
• 1916/05/30 Edmonton Bulletin Thousand Aliens to be Released
• 1916/07/14 Vancouver World Alien Workers Cause Trouble
• 1916/07/14 Toronto Globe Aliens Caused Trouble
• 1916/07/14 Globe Aliens Caused Trouble
• 1916/07/14 Brandon Daily Sun Troops Quell Disturbance at Mining Camp
• 1916/07/14 Edmonton Bulletin Trouble among Interns
• 1916/07/14 Edmonton Bulletin Trouble among Interns
• 1916/08/24 Manitoba Free Press Canadian Denies German Strory
• 1916/08/24 Ottawa Journal Four German Prisoners Escaped from Amherst
• 1916/08/24 Manitoba Free Press German Prisoners Escape
• 1916/08/24 Montreal Gazette HRH Visited Citadel
• 1916/08/24 Ottawa Journal Hun Officers Bowed as Duke Passed
• 1916/08/26 Halifax Chronicle Four Germans Who Escaped Recaptured
• 1916/08/26 Toronto Daily Star Fugitive Hun Killed
• 1916/08/26 Montreal Gazette Germans Recaptured
• 1916/08/26 Edmonton Bulletin Three Captured; Fourth is Killed
• 1916/08/26 Edmonton Bulletin Three Captured; Fourth is Killed
• 1916/08/26 Toronto Globe Three Germans Recaptured
• 1916/08/26 Globe Three Germans Recaptured
• 1916/08/26 Ottawa Journal Three Huns Caught; The Fourth is Shot
• 1916/08/26 Sault Star Three of the Four Escaped Germans Were Recaptured
• 1916/09/25 Vancouver World Alien Camp is a Model Prison
• 1917/02/28 Ottawa Journal 207th Battalion has been Chosen to go to England
• 1917/04/17 Montreal Gazette Taken off at Halifax
• 1917/08/31 Halifax Chronicle Germans Escape from Camp at Amherst
• 1917/08/31 Ottawa Journal Two Germans Escape
• 1917/08/31 Montreal Gazette Two Prisoners Escape
• 1917/09/04 Sault Star Two German Prisoners Escaped from Amherst
• 1917/11/16 Montreal Gazette Son of Chief Campeau Wounded
• 1917/12/15 Montreal Gazette Halifax Poll to be Held on January 28th
• 1917/12/15 Brandon Daily Sun Intern All Persons of Enemy Nationality in Nova Scotia Demanded
• 1918/06/12 Red Deer News Our Interned Aliens
• 1918/06/12 Red Deer News Our Interned Aliens
• 1918/06/27 Ottawa Journal Denies Report of Strike on Government Road
• 1918/06/27 Montreal Gazette No Foundation for Report
• 1918/08/23 Halifax Chronicle All Aliens Under Close Surveillance
• 1918/08/30 Montreal Gazette German Sailor on Maritime Express
• 1918/09/05 Montreal Gazette Justice to Whom Justice is Due
• 1918/09/12 Montreal Gazette The German Prisoner Case
• 1918/11/14 Toronto Daily Star Enemy Aliens to be Released
• 1918/11/14 Globe Interned Aliens to get Liberty
• 1918/11/14 Toronto Globe Interned Aliens to Get Liberty
• 1918/12/18 Red Deer News Mounted Police will be Retained
• 1918/12/18 Red Deer News Mounted Police will be Retained
• 1919/03/05 Edmonton Bulletin GWVA in St. John, NB
• 1919/03/05 Edmonton Bulletin GWVA in St. John, NB
• 1919/06/17 Montreal Gazette Would Intern German Ship Crew
• 1919/07/23 Ottawa Journal Being Shipped Back Home
• 1919/07/24 Toronto Globe Aliens On Way Home
• 1919/07/24 Redcliff Review Do Not want Aliens in Union
• 1919/07/24 Redcliff Review Do Not want Aliens in Union
• 1919/07/24 Montreal Gazette Germans Deported
• 1919/07/24 Montreal Gazette Melita Carries Noted Passengers
• 1919/07/31 Sault Star German Repatriation is Well Carried Out
• 1920/09/28 Vancouver World Return Money to Aliens Interned During War