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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><img width="718" height="127" id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D44C5B.29042760" alt="cid:image001.jpg@01D2AC7E.03425020"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">September 14, 2018</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><i><span style="font-size:20.0pt;color:black">Fernie at War: 1914-1919</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;color:black"> Presentation & Book Signing</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;letter-spacing:-.45pt">Location:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;letter-spacing:-.45pt"> Greater Vernon Museum & Archives</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;letter-spacing:-.45pt">Address:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;letter-spacing:-.45pt"> 3009 32<sup>nd</sup> Ave.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;letter-spacing:-.45pt">Dates:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;letter-spacing:-.45pt">Oct. 6 , 2018</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;letter-spacing:-.45pt">Time: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;letter-spacing:-.45pt"> 1:00pm – 2:30pm</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;letter-spacing:-.45pt">Admission:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;letter-spacing:-.45pt">By donation<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;letter-spacing:-.45pt">Phone:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;letter-spacing:-.45pt">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">250-542-3142 </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Author Wayne Norton Tours
<i>Fernie at War: 1914-1919 </i>as Part of Interment Canada Initiative </span></b><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%">Fernie, a small community located in BC’s Kootenay region, emerged from the First World War with multiple controversies that threatened to tear their
community apart. Just over a hundred years later, <b>Wayne Norton</b> chronicles the trials and tribulations of the BC city in his book
<b><i>Fernie at War: 1914-1919</i></b>. The British Columbia Historical Federation awarded Norton with the Community History Award which recognizes local and community history.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%">The public is invited to Norton’s presentation at the
</span><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%">Greater Vernon Museum & Archives
</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%">(</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%">3009 32<sup>nd</sup> Avenue</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%">) for a concise and in-depth presentation
on <i>Fernie at War</i> and history pertaining to Vernon on <b>Saturday, October 6, 2018</b> at
<b>1 PM</b>. Admission is by donation. Space is limited. Pre-registration required (Call 250-542-3142). All are welcome. Books will be available for sale & signing.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%">Fernie at War</span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%"> explores what it meant to live in Fernie during the confusing
and divisive years of the Great War and its aftermath. As a resource-based economy with unusually large and varied immigrant populations, and exceptionally high recruitment levels, Fernie was profoundly affected by conflicting impulses of labour, loyalty and
ethnicity. Demands for internment of enemy aliens, resistance to prohibition and moral reform, the consequences of natural and man-made disasters, the unprecedented banning of recruitment, and the western labour revolt were all issues that contributed to a
war-time experience for Fernie that was more dramatic and more revealing of underlying tensions than that of any other Canadian community.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%">About the book, Donna Sacuta, Executive Director of the BC Labour Heritage Centre, says “<i>Fernie at War</i> is a fine example of how labour and popular
history can be presented in an accessible and highly readable manner...” Wayne Norton is a writer, publisher and historical consultant living in Victoria, BC. He has written extensively on a variety of topics including music of the First World War, historic
women’s ice hockey, prairie settlement, public health, and the local histories of Kamloops and Fernie. He is the author of eight books and has published in <i>British Columbia</i> <i>History</i>, <i>The Globe and Mail</i>, <i>BC Studies</i> and <i>The Vancouver
Sun</i>. For more, go to </span><a href="http://www.caitlin-press.com/"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%">http://www.caitlin-press.com/</span></a><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Script MT Bold";color:#002060">Denise Marsh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Marketing & Communications Coordinator <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">250.542.3142 <span style="font-family:Symbol">|</span> 3009-32<sup>nd</sup> Ave. Vernon, BC V1T 2L8
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please note my regular working hours are: <o:p></o:p></p>
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