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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">November 04, 2015
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<strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">The Royal BC Museum commemorates past wars
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<strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">with Remembrance Week events<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">VICTORIA, BC –
</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">“Cold all night. Feet and hands felt it badly. Nothing doing all night. Rockets, maxim gun and rifle fire. Every time one came
over we ducked but on the whole were not greatly worried.” <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">So wrote Trooper – and British Columbian – Joe Shires from the European front line to Victoria-based
librarian Alma Russell one hundred years ago, on October 24, 1915. Russell, with whom Shires had worked before the war, is one of the soldiers whose hand-written letters, diaries and scrapbook pages members of the public have faithfully transcribed for the
Royal BC Museum since its <i>Transcribe</i> project (</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://transcribe.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">transcribe.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/</span></a></span><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">)
launched in April 2015. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Projects like
</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://transcribe.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Transcribe</span></i></a></span><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">
are just one of the ways the Royal BC Museum helps keep the war-time experiences – by turn frank and brutal, then tame and tedious – of British Columbian soldiers and nurses vivid and accessible to all.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">As we near Remembrance Day in 2015, the Royal BC Museum will embark on a series of special events
and educational experiences to commemorate wars past and honour the experiences and lives of men and women from BC who served.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Our commemorations begin on Wednesday November 5, when military historian Paul Ferguson will
present at </span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/events/live-lunch-discovering-victorias-great-war-at-home/"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Live @ Lunch – Discovering Victoria’s
Great War at Home</span></i></a></span><strong><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">.</span></i></strong><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">
Ferguson will tell us about local connections to the Great War, including heritage sites, memorials and commemorations. Learn where the names Passchendaele, Zonnebeke and Hill 70 await rediscovery in our local community. This
<i>Live @ Lunch</i> takes place at noon. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">On Tuesday, November 10, join the
</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.nadenband.ca/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Naden Band</span></a></span><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">
of the Royal Canadian Navy for a musical tribute: <i>Lest We Forget: A Musical Tribute to The Great War</i>. The concert will take place from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">On Wednesday, November 11, the Royal BC Museum will play host to three special Remembrance Day
performances. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">From 12:15 pm – 12:45 pm, the
</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://victoriachildrenschoir.ca/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Victoria Children’s Choir</span></a></span><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">
will perform music on themes of war and peace, including songs from the time of both World Wars, patriotic Canadian songs and more recent compositions expressing the common desire for peace and human solidarity.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">From 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm,
</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.pov.bc.ca/index.html"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Pacific Opera Victoria</span></a></span><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">
will stage scenes from a version of <i>Mary's Wedding</i>,</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB">
</span><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">a new Canadian opera commemorating the First World War and its impact on a generation of Canadian youth. Join dynamic musicologist and
public speaker Robert Holliston as he introduces scenes from <i>Mary’s Wedding</i>, which will be performed by young opera singers.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">From 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm,</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">
the </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.storytheatre.ca/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Story Theatre Company</span></a></span><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">
and the Royal BC Museum offer <i>The Call Went Out</i>, a special presentation of music, songs and poetry of the Great War period, mixed with letters from the young men who travelled over to the trenches. As letters from the BC Archives, written by local soldiers,
served as source material, the script and music have a decidedly British Columbian flavour.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">All these commemorative events take place in in Clifford Carl Hall, on the main floor of the
Royal BC Museum, and are free of charge. For more information about these and other events, please visit
</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">royalbcmuseum.bc.ca</span></a></span><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">All performances on Remembrance Day have been funded in part by the Veterans Affairs Canada
Community Partnership Fund. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><br>
<b>About the Royal BC Museum</b></span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xbodytext" style="margin-top:.1pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">The Royal BC Museum explores the province’s human history and natural history, advances new knowledge and understanding of
BC, and provides a dynamic forum for discussion and a place for reflection. The museum and archives celebrate culture and history, telling the stories of BC in ways that enlighten, stimulate and inspire. Looking to the future, the Royal BC Museum will be a
refreshed, modern museum, extending its reach far beyond Victoria as a world-class cultural venue and repository of digital treasures.
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