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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please find attached this press release from the Vernon & District Family History Society. June 20, 2020 marks 100 hundred years since the closure of
</span><span style="color:black">Canada’s</span><span style="color:red"> </span><span style="color:black">First National internment Operations. We at the museum would like to send our accolades to the VDFHS for their efforts to commemorate this event.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Blacksword">Gwyneth Evans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Community Engagement Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">250.550.3140 | 3009 32<sup>nd</sup> Ave. Vernon, BC V1T 2L8
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:gwyn.evans@vernonmuseum.ca"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0070C0">gwyn.evans@vernonmuseum.ca</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0070C0"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Vernon & District Family History Society [mailto:verfamhist@shaw.ca]
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, June 07, 2020 4:11 PM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Commemorating the end of Canada's First National Internment Operations 1914 - 1920<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Time sensitive notice</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Attached please find a press release honouring the recognition of the closure of Canada’s</span><span style="color:red">
</span><span style="color:black">First National internment Operations. The Vernon and District Family History Society, sanctioned by the Canadian First World War Internment</span><span style="color:red">
</span><span style="color:black">Recognition Fund is requesting that you forward</span><span style="color:red">
</span><span style="color:black">the information from our press release through your network of contacts.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Ted Hoyte
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Vernon & District Family History Society - Corresponding Secretary
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