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.
About the Author Michael Sasges is a retired journalist and the former director of the Nicola Valley Museum.
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Royal British Columbia Museum Once well beloved: remembering a british columbia great war sacrifice, paperback/michael sasges
