Castle Mountain, Alberta

Castle Mountain, Banff NP, Alberta, Canada 2,766 m. (9,074 ft.) As viewed from Rt. 1, the Trans-Canadian Highway A lesser-known fact: "Nearby to Castle Mountain is the site of a First World War internment camp where unnaturalized Ukrainian immigrants to Canada were confined. Life in the camps was often described as 'grim'; with its isolated location far from the roads of the time, the Castle Mountain camp was an ideal place to confine 'enemy aliens' and 'suspected enemy sympathisers'." Picture taken in mid-September 2011