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Once well beloved : remembering a British Columbia Great War sacrifice

  • Author: Sasges, Michael
    Contributor: Royal British Columbia Museum
    Date:
    Created
    2019
    Summary:

    "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."--

    Subject(s): Soldiers
    Original Publisher: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Royal BC Museum
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9780772672995, 0772672997, 9780772673008, 0772673004, 9780772673015, 0772673012, 0772677301, 9780772677303
    Collection(s)/Series: Here in BC