A Question of Perspective

James Harold Trigg's First World War internment photographs

Wayne Norton

Anyone who has spent hours ensconced in historical documents and archives likely will have experienced the disappointments and delights of finding something not looked for. Those mixed emotions have twice been mine in connection with the First World War internment camp located at Morrissey, near Fernie. On the first occasion—a quarter of a century ago—I was surprised to learn of the camp's very existence when I was looking into the history of mines abandoned by the Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company long ago. My second Morrissey surprise is much more recent. One day, Lorne Hammond of the Royal British Columbia Museum told me that an album of photographs left by a guard at the Morrissey internment camp was held at the Ashton Armoury Museum, in Victoria. Knowing how few photographs…

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British Columbia History (Digital) - 1 Issue, 57.1 Spring 2024

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