Spirit Lake, Quebec
Camp Opened: January 13, 1915
Camp Closed: January 28, 1917
Near Amos; 242 Chemin Joseph-Langlois, J0Y 2S0, Spirit Lake, Quebec
- 1911/11/07 Le Devoir Une nouvelle région de colonisation
- 1911/12/16 Le Devoir La colonisation dans l’Abitibi
- 1913/03/05 Le Devoir La colonisation au Témiscamingue
- 1914/09/23 Toronto Daily News Work, Not Charity Given Unemployed
- 1914/11/25 Winnipeg Tribune Aliens to Work Clearing Lands
- 1914/11/25 Vancouver Province By Interned Aliens
- 1914/11/26 Edmonton Bulletin Alien Enemies in Canada to Saw Wood
- 1914/11/26 Edmonton Bulletin Alien Enemies in Canada to Saw Wood
- 1914/11/26 Vancouver Province Aliens Must Saw Wood
- 1914/11/26 Brandon Daily Sun Plans For Internment of Aliens Maturing
- 1914/11/26 Niagara Fall Evening Review Work for Prisoners of War
- 1914/12/03 Vancouver World Interned will Work
- 1914/12/03 Le Devoir L’ennemi au défrichement
- 1914/12/03 Montreal Gazette Work for Enemy Aliens
- 1914/12/10 Vernon News Internment Plans Released
- 1914/12/11 Ottawa Journal Alien Enemies Sent to Petawawa Camp
- 1914/12/11 Ottawa Journal Experimental Farms in North Country
- 1914/12/11 Manitoba Free Press Removal of Alien Enemies to Camp
- 1914/12/11 Montreal Gazette To Clear Lands for Govt. Farms
- 1914/12/12 Ottawa Journal Interned Aliens will Clear Two Big Experimental Farms in the North
- 1914/12/12 Manitoba Free Press Two New Farms
- 1914/12/14 Brandon Daily Sun Prisoners of War to Work on Parks
- 1914/12/16 Montreal Gazette 4500 Aliens are on the Register
- 1914/12/16 Western Globe War Prisoners sent to the North to Clear Lands
- 1914/12/16 Western Globe War Prisoners sent to the North to Clear Lands
- 1914/12/21 Ottawa Citizen Few to be Interned
- 1914/12/22 Manitoba Free Press Alien Enemies in Canada
- 1914/12/23 Le Devoir Nos ennemis a l’Abittibi
- 1914/12/23 Western Globe Not Many Aliens to be Interned in Canada
- 1914/12/23 Western Globe Not Many Aliens to be Interned in Canada
- 1914/12/30 Ottawa Journal Making Aliens Work
- 1915/01/08 Niagara Fall Evening Review Dominion to Start Prison Farms
- 1915/01/08 Toronto Globe New Farms in Quebec Aliens Are to Clear
- 1915/01/08 Ottawa Journal Prison Farm in North
- 1915/01/13 Toronto Daily News Austrian Colony on Cleared Land
- 1915/01/13 Montreal Gazette To Command Alien Camp
- 1915/01/15 Montreal Gazette Alien Prisoners in Northern Wilds
- 1915/01/19 Edmonton Journal Pick Detention Camp
- 1915/01/20 Brandon Daily Sun Camps in Ontario
- 1915/01/20 Montreal Gazette Motor Battery for Contingent
- 1915/01/21 Vernon News Austrian Colony in Abitibi District
- 1915/01/21 Montreal Gazette Major WE Rodden at New Alien Camp
- 1915/01/22 Brandon Daily Sun Internment of Prisoners
- 1915/01/28 Montreal Gazette Hundred Aliens go to Spirit Lake
- 1915/01/29 Ottawa Journal Alien Enemies Work in Internment Camps
- 1915/02/01 Ottawa Journal War Prisoners Interned in Camp in Canada’s North Enjoy Good Times
- 1915/02/05 Montreal Gazette Enemies in Camp
- 1915/02/10 Montreal Gazette Aliens Court Arrest
- 1915/02/24 Le Devoir Au camp de concentration
- 1915/02/24 Montreal Gazette Lieut.-Col. W. Rodden
- 1915/02/24 Montreal Gazette More Aliens Interned
- 1915/03/03 Montreal Gazette Austrian makes Bid for Liberty
- 1915/03/09 Montreal Gazette Austrian Colony at Spirit Lake
- 1915/03/09 Le Devoir Une colonie autrichienne
- 1915/03/11 Montreal Gazette An Interesting Sequel
- 1915/03/13 Montreal Gazette French-Canadians to Quebec Today
- 1915/03/19 Montreal Gazette Aliens in Camp to Start Colony
- 1915/03/31 Montreal Gazette New Rules for Federal Prisons
- 1915/04/02 Montreal Gazette Canada’s War Prisoners
- 1915/04/02 Manitoba Free Press General Hughes Suspend Hurdman
- 1915/04/17 Montreal Gazette Austrians Recaptured at Spirit Lake
- 1915/04/17 Montreal Gazette Half a dozen Austrians
- 1915/04/19 Montreal Gazette Prisoners Clear Valcartier Camp
- 1915/04/20 Kitchener Daily British Whig Families Join Fathers in the Prisoner-of-War Camps
- 1915/04/27 Toronto Daily Star Aliens in Canada are Well Fed and Happy
- 1915/04/28 Manitoba Free Press Aliens Well Cared For
- 1915/05/03 Ottawa Journal Hughes Lauds Guard Who Kills Prisoner
- 1915/05/05 Montreal Gazette Aliens Register at New Bureau
- 1915/05/05 Glasilo KSK Jednote Ustreljen Avstrijski Ujetnik
- 1915/05/12 Montreal Gazette Chief Carpenter Leaves
- 1915/05/14 Le Devoir L’avenir de l’Abitibi
- 1915/05/25 Montreal Gazette Government Runs Transcontinental
- 1915/05/26 Kitchener Daily British Whig Quebec’s Prison Camps
- 1915/05/28 Le Devoir A départ pour l’Abitibi
- 1915/06/03 Le Devoir The Citizen’s Rights
- 1915/06/09 Brandon Daily Sun Escaping Prisoner Shot
- 1915/06/09 Montreal Gazette One Fugitive Shot
- 1915/06/10 Montreal Gazette Austrian Saved from Italians
- 1915/06/14 Toronto Daily News 1500 Interned in Past Month
- 1915/06/14 Ottawa Journal Summer Now, They Long for Freedom
- 1915/06/15 Brandon Daily Sun Fugitive Austrian Shot by Frenchman
- 1915/06/15 Sault Star Killing of Escaped Austrian at Spirit Lake
- 1915/06/19 Montreal Gazette Gov’t Interning Female Aliens, Too
- 1915/06/19 Toronto Globe Two Thousand Acres Cleared at Alien Camps
- 1915/06/21 Montreal Gazette Female Enemy Aliens interned
- 1915/06/23 Vancouver World Alien Escapes from Camp; Shot
- 1915/06/23 Winnipeg Tribune Austrian Fleeing Camp Shot Dead by Canadian Scout
- 1915/06/24 Vernon News Aliens Clear Land
- 1915/06/29 Montreal Gazette Alien Camp now a Settlement
- 1915/07/10 Montreal Gazette Husband and Sons at Battle Front
- 1915/07/26 Le Devoir Dans l’Abitibi
- 1915/08/05 Manitoba Free Press Aliens Clearing Land
- 1915/08/06 Montreal Gazette Habeas Corpus vs. Military Law
- 1915/08/06 Toronto Globe Notes and Comments – 2000 Alien Enemies
- 1915/08/12 Vernon News Hundred of Acres of Land Cleared by Prisoners
- 1915/08/19 Le Devoir On arrête un ennemi
- 1915/09/02 Ottawa Journal Preparing Supplies for Internment Camps for Coming Winter
- 1915/09/07 Toronto Daily News Escaped Austrians Returned to Camp
- 1915/09/22 Montreal Gazette Soldier Accidentally Shot
- 1915/10/25 Niagara Fall Evening Review Timiskaming Farms
- 1915/10/29 Ottawa Journal Weddings
- 1915/11/10 Ottawa Journal Aliens Interned Doing Work to Value 1.5 Million a Year in the Dominion
- 1915/12/02 Montreal Gazette Two Austrians Interned
- 1915/12/06 Le Devoir Détenus de guerre récalcitrants
- 1915/12/09 Chinook Advance Interned Aliens doing Good Work
- 1915/12/09 Chinook Advance Interned Aliens doing Good Work
- 1915/12/13 Toronto Daily News Interned Prisoners are Preparing Land
- 1915/12/21 Montreal Gazette More Prisoners for Spirit Lake
- 1916/01/03 Manitoba Free Press To Amalgamate Internment Camps
- 1916/01/05 Montreal Gazette Many Trained Men Joining 148th
- 1916/01/06 Montreal Gazette Stray Dogs to Spirit Lake
- 1916/01/10 Toronto Globe Stray Dogs to Spirit Lake
- 1916/02/08 Steaua Noastra Mica Publicitate: Caut
- 1916/02/18 Montreal Gazette Suspected Spy Seized at Rigaud
- 1916/03/15 Steaua Noastra Mica Publicitate: Caut
- 1916/05/04 Toronto Daily Star Transfers of Interned
- 1916/05/10 Pembroke Standard Interns Gone
- 1916/05/13 Ottawa Journal To Move Aliens from Petawawa Camp
- 1916/06/10 Montreal Gazette Major W. Date goes West
- 1916/06/19 Ottawa Journal Eleven Hundred Prisoners
- 1916/06/24 Montreal Gazette Capt. Roddy Kane joins the 244th
- 1916/06/26 Montreal Gazette More Austrians to Spirit Lake
- 1916/06/30 Toronto Daily News Work is Provided for Interned Men
- 1916/07/01 Brandon Daily Sun Allow Aliens to Labor in Coal Mines
- 1916/07/14 Vancouver World Alien Workers Cause Trouble
- 1916/07/14 Edmonton Bulletin Trouble among Interns
- 1916/07/14 Edmonton Bulletin Trouble among Interns
- 1916/07/15 Toronto Daily Star Canada Sets Aliens Free
- 1916/07/15 Montreal Gazette Interned Aliens being Released
- 1916/07/17 Sault Star Canada Sets Aliens Free
- 1916/07/21 Cochrane Northland Post Releasing Aliens in Canadian Camps
- 1916/07/27 Toronto Globe Military District Enlists Full Quota
- 1916/07/30 Toronto Daily Star Ottawa Orders Aid
- 1916/07/31 Vancouver World Two Governments Help
- 1916/08/18 Toronto Globe Aliens Taken to Camp
- 1916/08/22 Toronto Daily Star Few Aliens Held
- 1916/08/22 Montreal Gazette Many Aliens Released
- 1916/08/23 Kitchener Daily British Whig Internment Camps Release Aliens
- 1916/08/24 Sault Star Internment Camps Release Aliens
- 1916/08/25 Sault Star 75 Internees Left at Both Spirit Lake and Kapuskasing
- 1916/09/05 Sault Star Many Austrians Near Thessalon
- 1916/09/27 Vancouver World Why Aliens were Sent to Mines
- 1916/09/28 Edmonton Bulletin Labor Minister Scored by Trades Union Congress
- 1916/09/28 Edmonton Bulletin Labor Minister Scored by Trades Union Congress
- 1916/10/27 Blairmore Enterprise Lethbridge and Banff to Lose Camps
- 1916/10/27 Blairmore Enterprise Lethbridge and Banff to Lose Camps
- 1916/10/31 Montreal Gazette Lieut. WR Notman Killed in Action
- 1916/12/06 Winnipeg Tribune Germans Fed Uncooked Meat, Too Lazy to Work
- 1916/12/07 Brandon Daily Sun Interned Huns Getting Lazy
- 1917/01/03 Ottawa Journal Abandon Alien Enemy Camp
- 1917/01/29 Montreal Gazette More Battery Recruits
- 1917/03/28 Steaua Noastra Mica Publicitate: Caut
- 1917/04/03 Montreal Gazette Husband and Son Dead within Year
- 1917/04/07 Montreal Gazette Hun Raiders Fired Boy’s Patriotism
- 1917/04/09 Le Devoir Colonisation de l’Abitibi
- 1917/05/04 Montreal Gazette Interned Aliens Worked
- 1917/05/08 Toronto Globe Interned Aliens Employed
- 1917/05/15 Montreal Gazette Austrian Interns being Released
- 1917/05/23 Montreal Gazette Hit while Digging under Shell Fire
- 1917/06/06 Montreal Gazette For Law-Abiding Aliens
- 1917/06/30 Le Devoir Dans l’Abitibi
- 1917/07/11 Steaua Noastra Mica Publicitate: Caut
- 1917/08/31 Montreal Gazette Spirit Lake Adjutant Leaves
- 1917/10/18 Le Devoir Pour la colonisation
- 1917/12/26 Steaua Noastra Mica Publicitate: Caut
- 1918/06/12 Red Deer News Our Interned Aliens
- 1918/06/12 Red Deer News Our Interned Aliens
- 1919/03/17 Le Devoir Le progrès de l’Abitibi
- 1919/06/07 Ottawa Journal Canadian Towns