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Niagara Falls, Ontario
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Camp Opened: December 15, 1914
Camp Closed: August 31, 1918
Military Armoury; 5049 Victoria Avenue; corner of Victoria and Armoury St., Niagara Falls, Ontario
1914/07/07
Winnipeg Tribune
Bulgarians Slip Across US Line
1914/08/08
Montreal Star
Arrested by Welland Canal Men
1914/08/11
Montreal Gazette
Germans in Canada
1914/08/15
Toronto Daily News
Recruited Austrians
1914/08/15
Quebec Le Soleil
Tout reserviste ennemi sera arrete
1914/08/17
Ottawa Journal
Plot to Smuggle Austrian Reservists Across Border to United States Discovered
1914/08/25
Quebec Le Soleil
22 Autrichiens arretes a Welland
1914/08/25
Ottawa Citizen
Catching Reservists
1914/08/25
Toronto Daily News
Germans Held
1914/08/25
Calgary Herald
Prisoners of War
1914/08/25
Quebec Le Soleil
Reservistes autrichiens arretes au Canada
1914/08/25
Montreal Gazette
Reservists Arrested
1914/08/25
Toronto Daily News
Taken From Train; Held as Prisoners
1914/08/26
Vancouver Province
Hold Prisoners of War
1914/08/26
Toronto Daily Star
Locking up Austrians
1914/09/09
Ottawa Journal
Foreign Prisoners Sent to Fort Henry from Niagara Falls
1914/09/09
Le Devoir
Les prisonniers de guerre
1914/09/17
Toronto Daily News
Austrian Reservists Interned
1914/10/06
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Bunch of Trespassers on GTR How the Immigration Officers Act
1914/10/08
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Port Weller Story of Austrian Cruelty
1914/10/08
Niagara Fall Evening Review
War Prisoners Now at the Armory
1914/10/09
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Austria-Hungary Reservist Taken Prisoner To-Day
1914/10/15
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Broke His Parole
1914/10/15
Niagara Fall Evening Review
To Violate Immigration Laws, Austrian Offers Timekeeper Bribe
1914/10/17
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Foreign Fiends in our Midst
1914/10/17
Toronto Daily Star
Frank Ahman Released from Custody
1914/10/19
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Poles at Depew to Assist Fellow Countrymen
1914/10/20
Niagara Fall Evening Review
German Without Naturalization Papers
1914/10/20
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Twenty-three Austrian and German Prisoners Taken this Morning
1914/10/21
Niagara Fall Evening Review
German War Prisoners Arrested This Morning
1914/10/21
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Loyalty First, Please
1914/10/24
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Another Important Capture of Wanted Germans
1914/10/26
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Capture of Germans at Niagara Falls
1914/10/26
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Foreign Gamblers Police Action
1914/10/26
Toronto Daily News
German Reservist Arrested on Border
1914/10/26
Toronto Daily News
German Reservists Make Much Trouble
1914/10/26
Toronto Globe
Germans Break Parole: Try to Leave Canada
1914/10/27
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Aliens Refused Citizenship
1914/10/27
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Four More Austrians Taken Here Yesterday
1914/10/27
Le Devoir
Réglement d’immigration
1914/10/28
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Gang of 17 Austrians Arrested Last Night
1914/10/29
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Fort Erie Alarmed Fear Foreign Raid
1914/10/29
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Sensational Sequel to Arrest of Austrians
1914/10/30
Toronto Daily News
Rowens is Charged With High Treason
1914/10/31
Niagara Fall Evening Review
28 War Prisoners this Week
1914/10/31
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Ticket Agent Charged with High Treason
1914/11/02
Toronto Daily News
Danger of German Raid on Fort Erie is Very Remote
1914/11/02
Niagara Fall Evening Review
German Plot to Blow Up Canal and Tunnel
1914/11/02
Toronto Daily News
Letters From Welland Town Sent to Germany Via US Post
1914/11/03
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Dramatic Arrest of Two Germans
1914/11/03
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Immigration Officer Makes Another Capture
1914/11/03
Niagara Fall Evening Review
The Proposed German Attack on Canal and Tunnel
1914/11/04
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Mr. Van den Boom’s Arrest Proves Case of Official Mistaken Identity
1914/11/05
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Attempt to Blow Up Grand Trunk Subway
1914/11/06
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Another Austrian Reservist
1914/11/07
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Germans will not Attack Welland
1914/11/07
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Ticket Agent Rowan Committed on Treason
1914/11/09
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Austrian Reservist Captured
1914/11/09
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Austrians Digging Welland Canal
1914/11/10
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Five Homeless Roumanians Puzzle Civic Officials
1914/11/13
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Large Batch of War Prisoners
1914/11/13
Toronto Daily News
More Prisoners Arrive in City
1914/11/16
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Three Chippewa Men Arrested on Serious Charge
1914/11/16
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Welland Guard to be Doubled
1914/11/17
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Treason Charge Against Guard at Chippewa
1914/11/18
Brandon Daily Sun
Father and his Two Sons Held on Charge of Alleged Treason
1914/11/20
Toronto Daily News
Enough Irish Policemen in Buffalo to Stop Invasion
1914/11/20
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Joe Snider to be Tried in Spring
1914/11/20
Toronto Daily News
Two Snyder Boys Freed by Court
1914/11/21
Toronto Daily Star
Suspicious of this German
1914/11/21
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Two Snyders Set Free
1914/11/23
Vancouver World
Paul Mazur Charged with Treason
1914/11/25
Toronto Daily Star
Another Austrian Arrested
1914/11/25
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Welland’s Trouble with Foreigners
1914/11/26
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Canadian Militiaman Charged with Treason
1914/11/26
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Six More Austrians Arrested
1914/12/04
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Merriton Turks Sign Parole
1914/12/07
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Premier Borden Visits the Boys
1914/12/11
Brandon Daily Sun
Two Men Arrested Following Banquet at Niagara Falls
1914/12/12
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Roumanian Family Cause New Trouble
1914/12/30
Toronto Daily Star
German Interned at Fort George
1915/01/11
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Treason Charge Hopes for Moderation
1915/01/21
Niagara Fall Evening Review
30 Blind Pigs Raided Near Welland
1915/01/22
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Blind Pigs Raided Welland Excitement
1915/02/03
Kitchener Daily British Whig
Cases of Prisoners
1915/02/03
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Warrant for German Officer Who Blew Up CPR Bridge
1915/02/11
Toronto Daily Star
Guards at Niagara Bridge
1915/02/25
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Falls Treason Trial to be Opened To-day
1915/02/26
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Falls Treason Charge Rowens on Trial
1915/03/05
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Removal of Prisoners
1915/03/06
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Hans K. Ritter not a German
1915/04/03
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Released from Internment
1915/04/06
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Treason Trials
1915/04/09
Edmonton Bulletin
Guilty of Attempt to Commit Treason
1915/04/09
Edmonton Bulletin
Guilty of Attempt to Commit Treason
1915/04/21
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Prisoners of War Removed
1915/05/02
Niagara Falls Daily Record
Held Up By Military
1915/05/11
Niagara Falls Daily Record
Military Arrest German
1915/05/11
Toronto Daily Star
Two More Germans Taken at St. Kitts
1915/05/12
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Another Alien Detained
1915/05/12
Niagara Falls Daily Record
Another Military Arrest
1915/05/12
Winnipeg Tribune
Eastern Magnate German Arrested
1915/05/12
Niagara Fall Evening Review
St. Catharines
1915/05/13
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Bragging German Put Under Arrest
1915/05/18
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Germans Barred in Road Race at St. Catharines
1915/05/28
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Pro-German Papers
1915/05/28
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Protests Against Germans and Austrians
1915/05/29
Toronto Daily News
Alien Vanishes, Found Arrested
1915/05/31
Toronto Daily Star
Turks Gathered In
1915/06/02
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Removal of Turkish Prisoners
1915/06/02
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Turks were Captured
1915/06/07
Niagara Falls Daily Record
More Prisoners in Armoury
1915/06/08
Niagara Falls Daily Record
Treason Case Tried in Toronto
1915/06/09
Niagara Falls Daily Record
Prisoners Taken to Toronto
1915/06/10
Toronto Daily Star
Austrian Reservist Killed
1915/06/10
Toronto Daily News
Reservists Captured at Niagara Falls
1915/06/16
Toronto Daily Star
Austrian Charged with Trading with the Enemy
1915/06/16
Toronto Daily Star
No Picnic for Him
1915/06/17
Vernon News
Body of German Found
1915/06/17
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Welland Hungarian Faces Treason Charge
1915/06/22
Niagara Fall Evening Review
WJ Bryan Sent Cheque for Interned Germans
1915/06/23
Niagara Falls Daily Record
Welland Man Under Military Arrest
1915/06/25
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Upholsterer from Welland Interned
1915/06/26
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Austrian Apprehended
1915/06/26
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Warning to Germans
1915/07/03
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Albert Released
1915/07/05
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Alleged German Spy Caught
1915/07/05
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Was not a Personal Gift from William J Bryan
1915/07/06
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Aliens Turned Over to Military Authorities
1915/07/08
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Alleged-German-Spy-Caught
1915/07/08
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Another German Interned
1915/07/08
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Stopped Suspected German Spies
1915/07/10
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Joseph Snyder goes Free
1915/07/12
Winnipeg Tribune
German from St. Catharines is Interned
1915/07/12
Vancouver World
Well-Informed Alien
1915/07/14
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Local Hungarian Charged with Treason
1915/07/15
Sault Star
Austrians at Port Arthur and Niagara Attempted Escape
1915/07/15
Toronto Globe
Port Arthur Austrians Seek Vainly to Escape
1915/07/16
Edmonton Bulletin
Austrian Arrested for Treason
1915/07/16
Edmonton Bulletin
Austrian Arrested for Treason
1915/07/20
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Hungarian Fined $100 for Sending Money Home
1915/07/23
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Prisoners of War Removed
1915/07/24
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Austrians not Registered Arrested
1915/07/27
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Gen. Sir William Otter in City
1915/07/30
Toronto Daily News
Armenians and Turks Used Knives Freely
1915/07/31
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Armenians and Turks Fight
1915/07/31
Toronto Daily Star
Probing the Death of a Welland Canal Guard
1915/07/31
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Spy Joined Army at Brantford
1915/08/06
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Walkerton German Sends his Son
1915/08/12
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Prisoners Taken to Toronto
1915/08/12
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Quits Talking when Threatened with Internment
1915/08/16
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Immigration Men on the Job
1915/08/18
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Treason Trial at Welland
1915/08/21
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Austrians Arrested for Treason
1915/08/22
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Police Court News
1915/08/28
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Austrian Smugglers Interned
1915/08/31
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Bulgarians Going Home
1915/09/02
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Degenerate Turk is Interned
1915/09/02
Toronto Daily Star
Renewed Precautions on Niagara Border
1915/09/03
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Prisoners have been Taken Away
1915/09/07
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Are Travellers Urged not to Enter Canada
1915/09/20
Niagara Fall Evening Review
German Interned in Armoury
1915/09/21
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Another German Interned
1915/09/27
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Prisoners of War Leave for Toronto
1915/10/02
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Large Number of Bulgarians Leaving
1915/10/04
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Two Austrians Arrested
1915/10/12
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Bulgarians to be Interned
1915/11/04
Vernon News
German Found in Military at Niagara Camp
1915/11/05
Brandon Daily Sun
Armenians Refuse to Work with Turks
1915/11/26
Ottawa Journal
Pole Arrested as Alien Enemy
1915/11/30
Toronto Daily News
Jumped on Ferry After it Started
1915/12/15
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Many Cases at Welland
1915/12/18
Toronto Daily News
Arrests Expected at Niagara Falls
1915/12/18
Toronto Daily News
Enemy Plot to Destroy Welland Canal Discovered in New York; Two Arrested
1915/12/18
Toronto Daily News
Fought Over Money Matters
1915/12/18
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Leaders in Plot to Blow Up Wellland Canal Out on Bail
1915/12/18
Toronto Daily News
Planned to Destroy Bridges Over Gorge
1915/12/20
Toronto Daily News
Promise Many More Arrests
1915/12/21
Toronto Daily News
Says Italians are Detained
1915/12/21
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Welland Plot was only Part of Huge Conspiracy
1915/12/23
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Six Men Indicted in German Plot
1915/12/23
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Welland Plot was only Part of Huge Conspiracy
1915/12/27
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Bulgarians Interned
1915/12/29
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Fort Erie Connected with Welland Plot
1916/01/25
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Prisoners of War Removed
1916/01/28
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Austrian Tried to Escape
1916/01/29
Niagara Fall Evening Review
New US Immigration Order May Cause Friction Here
1916/02/01
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Under Assisting Aliens Act
1916/02/07
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Alleged Traitors Committed for Trial
1916/02/07
Edmonton Journal
New York Paper says Dominion Police Uncover Gigantic Scheme
1916/02/07
Toronto Daily News
Plot is Unearthed to Invade Canada
1916/02/09
Edmonton Bulletin
Home Guards Called Out
1916/02/09
Edmonton Bulletin
Home Guards Called Out
1916/02/09
Edmonton Bulletin
Pro-German Activity
1916/02/09
Edmonton Bulletin
Pro-German Activity
1916/02/11
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Rowdy Austrian Interned
1916/02/12
Toronto Daily News
Explosion is Laid to Foreign Agents
1916/03/13
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Alleged Traitor Committed for Trial
1916/03/20
Toronto Daily Star
Niagara Will Not Likely be Military Camp
1916/03/21
Toronto Daily News
One Man Interned, One Sent to Enlist
1916/03/21
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Stiff Sentences for Traitors
1916/03/21
Niagara Fall Evening Review
Treason Case on Today
1916/03/31
Niagara Fall Evening Review
More Welland Canal Plotters are Arrested
1916/04/05
Winnipeg Tribune
German Arrested in Plot to Dynamite Welland Canal
1916/04/06
Toronto Daily News
No Mention of Niagara Camp
1916/04/07
Toronto Daily Star
Gen. Logie Plans to Move Power Plants From Danger
1916/04/17
Toronto Daily Star
Riot Breaks at St. Kitts
1916/04/17
Ottawa Journal
Soldiers Called Out When Bulgars Strike
1916/05/02
Toronto Daily News
Strikers Riot, Three Injured
1916/05/16
Ottawa Journal
Plot Premeditated Against New Canal
1916/05/29
Toronto Daily Star
Straw Hats for Soldiers at Niagara
1916/06/24
Toronto Daily Star
221 of the Enemy Work on the Welland
1916/08/16
Edmonton Bulletin
Interns Resume Work
1916/08/16
Edmonton Bulletin
Interns Resume Work
1916/09/02
Kitchener Daily British Whig
A German Prisoner Dies
1916/09/12
Toronto Daily News
Want Austrian Returned
1916/11/21
Toronto Daily Star
Held Up at Border
1916/12/28
Ottawa Journal
Aliens on Welland Canal Escaped into States
1916/12/28
Montreal Gazette
Had no Parole Cards
1917/01/08
Niagara Falls Daily Record
More Alien Enemies Fined
1917/01/12
Niagara Falls Daily Record
Austrian Fined $200
1917/02/23
Toronto Daily Star
Doubles Border Fee
1917/03/09
Toronto Daily News
Held for Welland Plot
1917/03/09
Toronto Daily News
Spy Visited Niagara
1917/03/10
Niagara Falls Daily Record
Captain Fritzen, Welland Canal Plotter Arrested
1917/03/12
Niagara Falls Daily Record
Aliens Fined in Hamilton
1917/03/14
Niagara Falls Daily Record
Fifty Unregistered Bulgarians Found by Welland Chief
1917/03/16
Niagara Falls Daily Record
Woman with German Accent Barred from Canada
1917/03/26
Niagara Falls Daily Record
Militia Called Out to Guard Power Plants
1917/03/27
Niagara Falls Daily Record
Committee Appointed to Investigate Aliens
1917/03/28
Niagara Falls Daily Record
Sister City of Niagara Falls New York is an Armed Camp
1917/03/30
Niagara Falls Daily Record
Believed that Aliens Fired Shots at the Guards Over River
1917/04/28
Niagara Falls Daily Record
Austrian Charged with Breaking Parole
1917/05/04
Niagara Falls Daily Record
Three Austrians Charged with Breaking Parole
1917/05/26
Toronto Daily Star
Death Knell Sung For Pleasure Jaunts
1917/06/22
Niagara Falls Daily Record
Austrians Fined for Breaking Parole
1917/08/13
Niagara Falls Daily Record
Austrian Fined
1918/02/23
Toronto Globe
$5 Poll Tax on Aliens
1918/05/07
Toronto Daily Star
McLaren Appointed
1918/06/04
Ottawa Journal
Looks Like IWW Work
1918/07/11
American Srbobran
Srp. Nar. Odbrana u Kanadi: Clanovima Spr. Nar. Odbrana u Hamiltonu, Velandu i Fals Vju
1918/08/03
Toronto Daily Star
Polish Flag Flies Over Niagara Camp
1918/08/14
Montreal Gazette
Failed to Register
1919/02/04
Toronto Daily Star
20,000 Poles Over Le Pan Back to Varsity
1919/02/10
Toronto Globe
Foreigners Leaving With Their Savings
1919/02/19
Toronto Globe
Should Discriminate in Deportation
1919/04/14
Toronto Globe
Foreign Workers Ask Square Deal
1919/05/01
Toronto Globe
Canada Poles Make Appeal
1919/05/05
Toronto Globe
Jews Take Exception to Immigration Plan
1919/08/04
Le Devoir
Soldats de garde au Welland Canal
1920/05/13
Bassano Mail
Aliens Leaving Ontario
1920/05/13
Bassano Mail
Aliens Leaving Ontario
2014/07/31
Voice of Canadian Serbs
Project CTO Memorial Plaques Remembering Interned Immigrants
2014/09/25
Voice of Canadian Serbs
Obelezeno Stradanje Srba Interniraca u Radnim Logorima u Kanada: CTO Spomen-Ploca u 59 Gradova
2014/09/25
Voice of Canadian Serbs
The Plaque on the Stone: Niagara Serbs Remember the Internment
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