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Letters from The Front
By Denise Jacques
My favourite television program is Finding Your Roots. I am moved by how often the male and female guests are reduced to tears on discovering some aspect of family history. VHS had a parallel experience when we were contacted by a local family with a cache of Great War letters. We were asked for advice on preserving the letters and making them accessible….
FALL 2024 LECTURES
NOV
28
2024
Untold Tales of Old British Columbia
When: Thursday, 28 November, 7:00 pm
Where: MoV
Speaker: Daniel Marshall
Historian and the bestselling author of the 2018 Claiming the Land. British Columbia and the Making of a New El Dorado, Daniel Marshall will speak on his new book which details how Nlaka’pamux Chief Cexpe’nthlEm (Spintlum) and Henry Snyder, a U.S. militia captain, negotiated a peace that averted major bloodshed and inevitable incursion by U.S. forces across the 49th Parallel to defend American citizens.
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