Author: SASGES, MICHAEL
Title: Once Well Beloved Remembering a British Columbia Great War Sacrifice
Description: Victoria, B. C, Canada: The Royal British Columbia Museum, 2019. First Edition. First Printing; Paperback. ISBN: 0772672555. B&W Illustrations & maps; 8.3 X 5.8 X 0.4 inches; 134 pages; Soft cover has white spine with gold lettering. Illustrated with b/w pictures and map.' "Our well beloved dead who died that we might live." In the town of Merritt, in British Columbia's Nicola Valley, stands a granite cenotaph erected in memory of 44 men who died soldiering in the First World War. Those men came from a Nicola Valley that had been suddenly and dramatically settled just a decade before by the will of railway executives and the arrival of British colliers. Twelve of those soldiers are the subject of these pages--and through them, we meet the men, women and children of the Nicola Valley, the dead and their survivors: the people who built and were built by a Canadian community that was also distinctly British Columbian. ' Index.. New .

Keywords: 0772672555 Military History; Canada; Canadian History; British Columbia; World War 1; World War I; Biographies; Soldiers; the Great War; Cultural History Education European History Geography Biography/Memoirs/Journals Reference Government/Economics/Law/Po