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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">October 18, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Royal BC Museum publishes a new book about
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">one BC town’s contributions to the Great War<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">VICTORIA, BC</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";font-weight:normal">–</span></strong><a name="OLE_LINK5">
</a><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";font-weight:normal">More than one hundred years after the end of the First World War, the stories of 12 small-town BC men who soldiered in the conflict have been captured in the pages of the Royal BC
Museum’s latest book, <i>Once Well Beloved</i>, available today. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";font-weight:normal">Starting with the stories of a carpenter, a coal miner and a drifter, all of whom volunteered for the war, Michael Sasges, a retired journalist and the former director
of the Nicola Valley Museum, paints a detailed picture of the soldiers—and through them, the men, women and children of BC’s Nicola Valley.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";font-weight:normal">“<i>Once Well Beloved</i> is a well reported historical document about the great impact of World War I on a small Canadian community,” writes Jeff Fleischer in
<i>Foreword Reviews</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";font-weight:normal">The work of BC history and biography is a vivid snapshot of the town of Merritt, where a granite cenotaph erected in memory of 44 men who died soldiering in the First
World War still stands today.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";font-weight:normal">Through the stories of 12 of these 44 soldiers, readers also learn about the dramatic social and historical changes that occurred in the Nicola Valley, which had been
suddenly and dramatically settled just a decade before by the will of railway executives and the arrival of British colliers.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">The 144-page book, illustrated with black and white photographs from libraries, archives, museums and private collections,</span>
<span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">retails for $17.95. It is available through local bookshops, the Royal Museum Shop and online at
</span><a href="https://publications.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">rbcm.ca</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">/books</span></span><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><i><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";font-weight:normal">Once Well Beloved</span></i></strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55""> is also available in braille, thanks to the National Network for Equitable
Library Service’s Braille Publication Project. To download the electronic braille file, visit
<a href="https://nnels.ca/items/once-well-beloved-remembering-british-columbia-great-war-sacrifice">
https://nnels.ca/items/once-well-beloved-remembering-british-columbia-great-war-sacrifice</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">The Royal BC Museum’s publishing department and Sasges are celebrating the launch of the book with two events: on October 29 from 6 to 7:30 pm at the Kamloops Library (</span><a href="http://rhodes.tnrl.ca/record=g1000516&searchscope=0&SORT2=R"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">http://rhodes.tnrl.ca/record=g1000516&searchscope=0&SORT2=R</span></a><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">)
and on November 7 from 7:00 to 8:30 pm at the Royal BC Museum (</span><a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/109009/book-launch-once-well-beloved"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/events/calendar/event/109009/book-launch-once-well-beloved</span></a><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">The Royal BC Museum will feature a number of performances and presentations on Remembrance Day to honour the service and sacrifice of Canada’s veterans and to remember the fallen. As we approach
November 11, more details will be added to the events page at </span><a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/calendar/2019-11"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/calendar/2019-11</span></a><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">About the Royal BC Museum</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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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. Located in Victoria on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen (Songhees
and Xwsepsum Nations), we are a hub of community connections in BC–onsite, offsite and online–taking pride in our collective histories.
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