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McGowan March recreates crucial moment in BC history

January 14, 2009|

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

September 23, 2008|

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 [...]

Toff and Proff duke it out at Great Edward Bulwer Lytton Debate

August 16, 2008|

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 [...]

Theatre Royal’s Motherlode hits the road for the summer

July 7, 2008|

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETheatre Royal’s Motherlode touring road show is taking the musical story of the discovery of gold and the birth of British Columbia to BC communities this summer during a three-month railroad and road tour celebrating BC’s 150th anniversary.“Added to our summer shows at Theatre Royal, Barkerville we have added this second road show [...]

Motherlode Troupe Teaming Up The Cariboo Road

May 22, 2008|

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 [...]

NPTGS symposium offers educators new resources to help teach B.C. history

March 31, 2008|

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 [...]

Fraser River War Symposium shines light on shadowy chapter in B.C. history

September 4, 2007|

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 [...]

Lieutenant Governor to preside at Historic Yale Canada Day celebration

June 13, 2007|

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 [...]

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