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It was the largest <a href="/wiki/Internment_camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Internment camp">internment camp</a> in <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a> during <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>; a maximum of 853 prisoners were housed at one time at the old Malleable Iron foundry on the corner of Hickman and Park Streets.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The most famous prisoner at the camp was <a href="/wiki/Leon_Trotsky" title="Leon Trotsky">Leon Trotsky</a>. 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class="sidebar-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Citadel_hill.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Citadel_hill.jpg/250px-Citadel_hill.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Citadel_hill.jpg/375px-Citadel_hill.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Citadel_hill.jpg/500px-Citadel_hill.jpg 2x" data-file-width="897" data-file-height="504" /></a></span><div class="sidebar-caption"><a href="/wiki/Citadel_Hill_(Fort_George)" title="Citadel Hill (Fort George)">Citadel Hill</a> in <a href="/wiki/Halifax,_Nova_Scotia" title="Halifax, Nova Scotia">Halifax</a></div></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background-color:#eee;padding-left:.1em;;color: var(--color-base)">Notable events</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><table class="infobox" style="background-color: transparent; color: var( --color-base ); border-collapse:collapse; border-spacing:0px; border:none; width:100%; margin:0px; font-size:100%; clear:none; float:none"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Port_Royal_(1690)" title="Battle of Port Royal (1690)">Battle of Port Royal</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;">1690</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Port_Royal_(1710)" title="Siege of Port Royal (1710)">Siege of Port Royal</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;">1710</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Winnepang" title="Battle of Winnepang">Battle of Winnepang</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;">1722</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Northeast_Coast_Campaign_(1745)" class="mw-redirect" title="Northeast Coast Campaign (1745)">Northeast Coast Campaign</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;">1745</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Grand_Pr%C3%A9" title="Battle of Grand Pré">Battle of Grand Pré</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;">1747</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Raid_on_Dartmouth_(1751)" title="Raid on Dartmouth (1751)">Dartmouth Massacre</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;">1751</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Bay_of_Fundy_Campaign_(1755)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bay of Fundy Campaign (1755)">Bay of Fundy Campaign</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;">1755</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Louisbourg_(1758)" title="Siege of Louisbourg (1758)">Siege of Louisbourg</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;">1758</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Royal_Naval_Dockyard,_Halifax" title="Royal Naval Dockyard, Halifax">Royal Naval Dockyard, Halifax</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;">1758</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Halifax_Treaties" class="mw-redirect" title="Halifax Treaties">Halifax Treaties</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;">1760–1761</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Cumberland" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Fort Cumberland">Battle of Fort Cumberland</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;">1776</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Raid_on_Lunenburg,_Nova_Scotia_(1782)" title="Raid on Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (1782)">Raid on Lunenburg</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;">1782</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/New_Ireland_(Maine)#War_of_1812" title="New Ireland (Maine)">Establishment of New Ireland</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;">1812</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Capture_of_USS_Chesapeake" title="Capture of USS Chesapeake">Capture of USS <i>Chesapeake</i></a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;">1813</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Great_Redan" title="Battle of the Great Redan">‪Battle of the Great Redan</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;">1855</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Lucknow" title="Siege of Lucknow">‪Siege of Lucknow</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;">1857</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/CSS_Tallahassee" title="CSS Tallahassee">CSS <i>Tallahassee</i> escape</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;">1861</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Halifax_Provisional_Battalion" title="Halifax Provisional Battalion">‪Halifax Provisional Battalion</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;">1885</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Witpoort" title="Battle of Witpoort">‪Battle of Witpoort</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;">1899</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Paardeberg" title="Battle of Paardeberg">‪Battle of Paardeberg</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;">1899</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Imprisonment of Leon Trotsky</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;">1917</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Fort_Edward_(Nova_Scotia)#World_War_I" title="Fort Edward (Nova Scotia)">Jewish Legion formed</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;">1917</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/HMHS_Llandovery_Castle" title="HMHS Llandovery Castle">Sinking of <i>Llandovery Castle</i></a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;">1918</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_St._Lawrence" title="Battle of the St. Lawrence">Battle of the St. Lawrence</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;">1942–1944</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/SS_Point_Pleasant_Park" title="SS Point Pleasant Park">Sinking of <i>Point Pleasant Park</i></a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;">1945</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Halifax_riot" title="Halifax riot">Halifax VE-Day riot</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;">1945</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background-color:#eee;padding-left:.1em;;color: var(--color-base)">Notable regiments</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><table class="infobox" style="background-color: transparent; color: var( --color-base ); border-collapse:collapse; border-spacing:0px; border:none; width:100%; margin:0px; font-size:100%; clear:none; float:none"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_Mi%E2%80%99kmaq_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Military history of the Mi’kmaq people">Mi'kmaq militias</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right">1677–1779</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_the_Acadians" title="Military history of the Acadians">Acadian militias</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right">1689–1761</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/40th_(the_2nd_Somersetshire)_Regiment_of_Foot" title="40th (the 2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot">40th Regiment of Foot</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right">1717–1757</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Louisbourg_Garrison" title="Louisbourg Garrison">Louisbourg Garrison</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right">1717–1758</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Gorham%27s_Rangers" title="Gorham's Rangers">Gorham's Rangers</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right">1744–1762</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Danks%27_Rangers" title="Danks' Rangers">Danks' Rangers</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right">1756–1762</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/84th_Regiment_of_Foot_(Royal_Highland_Emigrants)" title="84th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants)">84th Regiment of Foot</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right">1775–1784</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Royal_Fencible_American_Regiment" title="Royal Fencible American Regiment">Royal Fencible American</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right">1775–1783</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Royal_Nova_Scotia_Volunteer_Regiment" title="Royal Nova Scotia Volunteer Regiment">Royal Nova Scotia Volunteers</a></th><td 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href="/wiki/Nova_Scotia_Fencibles" title="Nova Scotia Fencibles">Nova Scotia Fencibles</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right">1803–1816</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/The_Halifax_Rifles_(RCAC)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Halifax Rifles (RCAC)">Halifax Rifles</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right">from 1860</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/The_Princess_Louise_Fusiliers" class="mw-redirect" title="The Princess Louise Fusiliers">Princess Louise Fusiliers</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right">from 1867</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/78th_(Highlanders)_Regiment_of_Foot#Halifax,_Nova_Scotia" title="78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot">78th Highland</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right">1869–1871</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Cape_Breton_Highlanders" title="Cape Breton Highlanders">Cape Breton Highlanders</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right">from 1871</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/25th_Battalion_(Nova_Scotia_Rifles),_CEF" title="25th Battalion (Nova Scotia Rifles), CEF">Nova Scotia Rifles</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right">1914–1919</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/No._2_Construction_Battalion" title="No. 2 Construction Battalion">No. 2 Construction Battalion</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right">1916–1919</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/West_Nova_Scotia_Regiment" title="West Nova Scotia 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Scotia"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Military_history_of_Nova_Scotia" title="Template talk:Military history of Nova Scotia"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Military_history_of_Nova_Scotia" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Military history of Nova Scotia"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>When the First World War began in 1914, there was widespread suspicion in Canada that immigrants from enemy nations might be disloyal. In response, the federal government passed regulations allowing it to monitor and intern anyone who had not become naturalized British subjects. These people were labelled "enemy aliens." In total 8,579 men were prisoners of war in 24 camps across the country.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Amherst camp was one of three internment camps in Nova Scotia. The others were on <a href="/wiki/Melville_Island_(Nova_Scotia)" title="Melville Island (Nova Scotia)">Melville Island</a> in the Northwest Arm of Halifax Harbour and in <a href="/wiki/Citadel_Hill_(Fort_George)" title="Citadel Hill (Fort George)">Citadel Hill (Fort George)</a>. Unlike the rest of Canada, where internees were mostly of Eastern European origin, the internees in Nova Scotia were mainly German reservists.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Camp">Camp</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Amherst_Internment_Camp&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Camp"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LeTrotskyDB.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/LeTrotskyDB.jpg/220px-LeTrotskyDB.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="290" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/LeTrotskyDB.jpg/330px-LeTrotskyDB.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/LeTrotskyDB.jpg/440px-LeTrotskyDB.jpg 2x" data-file-width="448" data-file-height="590" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Leon_Trotsky" title="Leon Trotsky">Leon Trotsky</a> in 1917, Prisoner of War.</figcaption></figure> <p>The camp consisted of a building that was 100 feet wide by a quarter of a mile long. The south end was used as the German Officers' quarters, the camp hospital and the medical inspection room. The north end housed the prisoners' quarters and their washrooms. Further to the north, close to Patterson Street, was the large mess hall, recreation room, kitchen, and pantry stores.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Of these eight hundred prisoners, about five hundred were sailors from German warships sunk by the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a>; about two hundred were workers caught by the war in Canada, and a hundred more were officers and wealthy civilian prisoners.<sup id="cite_ref-ns2_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ns2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By April 1915, the Halifax camp had become overcrowded and a new one opened at Amherst. The first prisoners of the camp arrived from Halifax on April 17, 1915, aboard armed trains. A total of 640 sailors of the captured vessel <a href="/wiki/SS_Kaiser_Wilhelm_der_Grosse" title="SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse">SS <i>Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse</i></a>. The Citadel now housed only first-class prisoners of war (officers) and Amherst housed those considered second-class (reservists from the ranks and enemy aliens). When the Citadel camp closed on October 3, 1916, its prisoners were transferred to Amherst. At one point toward the end of the war, the Amherst camp held 854 internees and was the largest in Canada. </p><p>On June 25, 1915, a group of prisoners refused to enter the compound upon a guard's order. The riot that ensued resulted in one guard being injured and one prisoner was shot and killed and four others were wounded. An inquiry found that discipline had been lacking and the camp commander, Major G. R. Oulton, a veteran of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Boer_War" title="Second Boer War">Second Boer War</a>, was replaced by Colonel <a href="/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Henry_Morris&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arthur Henry Morris (page does not exist)">Arthur Henry Morris</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81,_%D0%90%D1%80%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D0%B8" class="extiw" title="ru:Моррис, Артур Генри">ru</a>]</span>. </p><p>Trotsky and his family were living in exile in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> during <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> and decided in 1917 he wanted to return to Russia. His return ship, <a href="/wiki/SS_Kristianiafjord_(1912)" title="SS Kristianiafjord (1912)">SS <i>Kristianiafjord</i></a>, temporarily docked in the Halifax Harbour. On April 3, 1917, Trotsky was detained at the Citadel, and shortly thereafter was brought to the Amherst Internment Camp (Trotsky's wife, <a href="/wiki/Natalia_Sedova" title="Natalia Sedova">Natalia Sedova</a>, and his children remained in Halifax at a hotel, reporting daily to the police station).<sup id="cite_ref-ns2_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ns2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Trotsky referred to the camp as a <a href="/wiki/Internment" title="Internment">concentration camp</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ns2_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ns2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He wrote about the camp commanders' attempts to block his mobilization of the other prisoners to join the Russian Revolution, writing: </p> <dl><dd>The whole month I was there was like one continuous mass meeting. I told the prisoners about the Russian revolution, about <a href="/wiki/Karl_Liebknecht" title="Karl Liebknecht">Liebknecht</a>, about <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin" title="Vladimir Lenin">Lenin</a>... the British colonel... forbade me to make any more public speeches. But this did not happen until the last few days of our stay at the camp, and served only to cement my friendship with the sailors and workers, who responded to the colonel's order by a written protest bearing five hundred and thirty signatures. A plebiscite like this, carried out in the very face of Sergeant Olsen's heavy-handed supervision, was more than ample compensation for all the hardships of the Amherst imprisonment.</dd></dl> <p>During the four years of the camp, six prisoners successfully escaped while approximately eleven others had died during their internment because of accident, or ill health. A tombstone, located at the Amherst Cemetery, marks the death of these POWs. Their bodies were returned to Germany in 1919. 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