Camp 130

Camp 130, also known as the Kananaskis Camp and the Camp Seebe was a Canadian prisoner-of-war camp located near Seebe, Alberta. The camp operated from september 1939 to June 1946.^[1]

The camp, overlooking Barrier Lake, was founded on September 29, 1939.^[2][3] It initially housed German civilians and merchant seamen.^[3] In 1940, 44 Italian-Canadians were sent to the camp.^[4] In July 1941 the civilian prisoners were transferred to another camp, and guard towers and barbed wire was installed for its new prisoners.^[5] The camp eventually held a population of 1000 German soldiers and officers.^[3][5]