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Today in History, July 7th 1863
United States starts the military draft. Exemptions cost 300 dollars.
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This showing of art and lifestyle chronicles an interesting life of a women, that came to Canada from Holland at 19 years of age. She has hosted an optimistic life after coming 6 months after War Bride privileges expired in Canada to join her Husband a WW II veteran she met in Europe. One of her life choices was to not compete in the 1948 Olympics that she had qualified for and to choose a more private lifestyle here in Canada with her future husband Norm.
Her choice’s further included wisdom to over come the past as a child viewing mass reprisal executions in her village by occupation forces. The woman is a great example of overcoming and mitigating the petty things that often escalate to the unattractive and sometimes cruel; in this life sometimes covered by a thin veneer of prosperity.
Her showing at the Court House Gallery here in Merritt BC , Canada kicks off with an evening reception on the ninth of July. The showing will run weekends through July.
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Today in History:July 6th,1947
The AK -47 Rifle goes into production in the Soviet Union.
This diploma from 1917 is on display in the Nicola Valley Historical Societies Baillie House, A relative of a current board member it sites Florence Nightingale standards. Completed in a local hospital with practicing MDs supervision.
Today in History, July 5th 2003 :
SARS declared contained by World Health Organization
Happy July 4 2010, to you all Yanks…..Ζ
These two travellers originally from Stockholm Sweden are traveling the back country .Recently from Likely to Wells BC on mopeds , through the back way on their wits. They were asking about an old rail bed route from here to Hope and on thought he Fraser Canyon.
Today in history July 2 1776
Lee resolution outlines American independence.
- work started
The Canadian Country Music Hall of Honour, has started work inside their building. posted blueprints on the wall show rotunda, vinyl resurfacing, and flat screen TVs going into the building in the 2000 block of Quilchena Avenue in Merritt.
This Anne Murray hand print is one of some not displayed in the walk of stars proper , walking tour about town. It was on display in the building untill recent work began.
Today in history, June 30 1990 :
East and West Germany Merge their Economies.
This is a period that covers a good deal of our post contact history, in the south central interior of BC.
This picture is purported as the original Coldwater Hotel in Merritt. Burned down in 1907. Built by Wilber McIntyre, replaced two years later.
Today in History, June 29, 2002
Koreans clash, 6 dead , north”s ship sunk.
- New plant
2.5 million dollars of federal money has Merritt a new wood pellet plant, it may use up to 50 people. The place is welcome cleaning up and improving an auto wreaking yard and an auto body repair place.
Wood pellets made from bug killed trees could be stumpage rate friendly as well.
Today in History, June 28, 1894:
Labor day becomes a offical holiday in the US.
Day off to observe a great personal event.
back on monday….
Merritt, Bottling Works, a couple of entrepeneurs sold pop to coal miners, the time tenure relates to most of the post European contact, in this part of the south central interior of BC.
Today in History, June 24 ,1692
Kingston Jamaica founded.
1959 Land Rover in absolute mint condition, restored at a business in a small community close to here. You could not tell that it had not come off the assembly line yesterday.
Today in History, June 23, 1961
Treaty in Antarctica. The agreement aids tensions in Cold War International territory cooperatively governed a precursor to the space station program.
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