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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (YALE, B.C.) Dawn on a bitterly cold January morning: Captain Grant of the Royal Engineers peers across the frozen Fraser River at Hill’s Bar, headquarters of a band of rebels who want to take over British Columbia. Grant and his men must make it past this stronghold held by notorious San [...]

Fraser River Lecture Series Celebrates River of Diversity From its sources in the Rockies to its mouth at the Pacific, the Fraser River pulses through our province like an artery. It passes through landscapes as varied as sagebrush-covered benchlands to the dramatic chasms of the Canyon. This fall, five communities along the [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (LYTTON) It will be a dark and stormy night in Canada’s Hot Spot when Lord Lytton’s descendant dukes it out with the American academic who’s made his famous forebear a literary laughing stock. The Honourable Henry Lytton Cobbold (great-great-great-grandson of Victorian novelist and politician Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, namesake of the village [...]

The Motherlode Troupe Teaming Up The Cariboo Road As Summertime Tour Kicks Off FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (PRINCE GEORGE) The Motherlode theatre troupe is “Teaming up the Cariboo Road” as they kick off their summer tour today with a musical preview of their high-energy musical theatre show. The youthful, five-actor troupe filled the [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE You know about the river that bears his name. You’ve probably heard something about his journey. But what do you know about the man himself? Who was this blunt, tenacious Nor'wester and what drove him to trek from the Rockies to the mouth of the ferocious river we call the Fraser [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (100 MILE HOUSE) Educators will get a fresh perspective on how to teach students about B.C.’s rich and diverse history at the Pathways to Gold symposium. Designed to provide new teaching strategies and resources, the symposium is ideal for school teachers, particularly those teaching grades 4 and 5, as well as [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (LYTTON) B.C. is divided into armed camps. American militias fight pitched battles with the First Nations along the Fraser River while the government in Victoria watches helplessly. On a hot summer night in the hills above Lytton, with the two sides poised to fight a decisive showdown, two leaders meet around [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (YALE) The Lieutenant Governor, the Honourable Iona Campagnolo, will preside at a special Canada Day celebration at historic Yale and give a preview of some of the events in store to mark BC150. Her Honour will play a special role in the festivities, which will feature music, street theatre and historic [...]