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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=p3><span class=s2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>"History is written by the conquerors." That, or something like it, is what we often hear, no matter what kind of history we're looking at.</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=p3><span class=s2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>In the Creston valley, we can't talk too much about "conquest'" but we can certainly say that local history has been, to a very large extent, written by the dominant cultural group: that is to say, by those of British extraction.</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=p3><span class=s2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>But there have been many other nationalities represented in Creston Valley's history. These people have played just as important a role in the community's evolution as did the British folks, but their contribution has been considerably less recognised.</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=p3><span class=s2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>It’s time to celebrate the "other" Europeans who have helped build this Valley. That is why the Creston Museum is preparing to open its brand-new exhibit, "Born to the Soil" on April 30.</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=p3><span class=s2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>" 'Born to the soil' is a phrase from the Canadian government's immigration policy of the early 1900s," says Museum manager Tammy Hardwick. "The slogans and recruitment processes changed over the decades, but the basic goal of immigration was pretty constant: Canada wanted strong, sturdy people who would come here to farm the land."</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=p3><span class=s2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>The new exhibit looks at the community of Wynndel prior to the First World War, where two brothers from Norway and their children (21 in all) not only established farms in that town, but also triggered a major population boom.</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=p3><span class=s2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>The second settlement of Lister, in 1929, saw numerous families from Germany, Poland, Russia, the Ukraine, and other countries coming in to take over land vacated by returned Great War soldiers a few years earlier. Many of those families are still actively farming in the community today.</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=p3><span class=s2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>The Doukhobors, displaced several times since arriving in Canada in 1899, began arriving in the Creston Valley in 1938. Although a number of these families came here to farm, many individuals also contributed to other local businesses and industries.</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=p3><span class=s2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>"We also have a few individual stories: a close look at a single family that represents an important part of Canadian immigration policy, or a significant reason why people chose to leave Europe," says Hardwick.</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=p3><span class=s2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>These family stories reflect interwar immigration, when people wanted to leave Europe to escape economic devastation, as well as post-war</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> </span></span><span class=s2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>immigration where people struggling under social, political, or economic upheaval sought safety and security in a new country.</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=p3><span class=s2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>The exhibit opens on Saturday, April 30. The event begins at 3:00 with a tour of the Creston Museum through the eyes of an immigrant. The exhibit will be officially opened at 3:45, and an international food sampler (and the Museum's Annual General Meeting) will follow at 4:00.</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=p3><span class=s2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Admission is by donation for members of the Museum and $15 per person for non-members. For more information, or for tickets, please contact the Museum at 250-428-9262 or crestonmuseum@telus.net.</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Tammy Hardwick, Manager</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Creston & District Museum & Archives</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>219 Devon Street, Creston, BC V0B 1G3</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Phone 250-428-9262</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><a href="www.crestonmuseum.ca"><span style='color:windowtext'>www.crestonmuseum.ca</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CrestonMuseum"><span style='color:windowtext'>Find us on Facebook!</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>