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• Title:From the West Coast to the Western Front : British Columbians and the Great War / Mark Forsythe and Greg Dickson.
  
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• Author/Creator:Forsythe, Mark, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Dickson, Greg, 1956- author.
  Xwi7xwa Collection
  
• Published/Created:Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing, [2014]
  ©2014
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PF F67 F76 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Indigenous Peoples--History--British Columbia
  
• Library of Congress Subjects: World War, 1914-1918--British Columbia--Biography.
  Soldiers--British Columbia--Biography.
  World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Western Front.
  British Columbia--Biography.
  
• Description:261 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 26 cm
  
• Summary:"Compiling stories, artifacts and photos sent in by BC Almanac listeners from across the province, this volume tells of submarine smuggling, bagpipes lost on the battlefield, and of the ongoing struggles by soldiers who made it home. It tells of battles that set records for mass death amid conditions of unequalled squalor, but also of the heroism of front-line nurses and soldiers like George McLean, a First Nations man from the Okanagan who won the Distinguished Conduct Medal. By turns devastating, harrowing, insightful and miraculous, these stories reveal much about the spirit and resilience of a people who survived one of history's greatest disasters to build the province we have today." -- Provided by publisher.
  
• Additional formats:Issued also in electronic format.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  Text in English.
  
• ISBN:9781550176667 (pbk.)
  1550176668 (pbk.)
  9781550176674
  1550176676
  
• Contents:The Big Men of the War: Premier McBride and General Currie
  Off to War: Training and Trenches
  Ordinary Men, Extraordinary Courage: Our Victoria Cross Recipients
  BC's Naval Legacy: Improvising to Protect the West Coast
  Our Flying Aces: Daring Young Men
  Journey to Vimy: Canada's Soldiers Come of Age
  Two Horsemen, Two Solitudes: George McLean and Gordon Flowerdew
  First Nations Soldiers: So Many Served
  Canada's Nursing Sisters: Our Daughters on the Front Lines
  BC Women and the Great War: Breaking Barriers
  Tales the Cenotaphs Tell: Sacrifice, Remembrance and Commemoration
  They Fought for Canada, but They Couldn't Vote
  They Chose Not to Fight: Socialists, Pacifists and Deserters
  BC's Internment Camps: Behind the Barbed Wire
  The War's Lasting Legacy: Inspiring Arts, Culture and Sports
  Victory, but at What Cost?
  Our Own: The Regiments.