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Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Daily Dose of History”

FaceTime StoryTime

Creston Museum December 10, 2020 Celebrating in COVID, Daily Dose of History, News & Articles Leave a Comment

If you attend the community Winterfest next week (Saturday, December 19), you’ll have a chance to explore an oversize version of Waiting for Winter by Sebastian Meschenmoser. It’s a delightful story about a squirrel who has never seen snow and …

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Do a Good Deed

Creston Museum December 5, 2020 Celebrating in COVID, Daily Dose of History, News & Articles Leave a Comment

There’s really nothing better than doing a good deed for someone else to lift your winter blahs away. And, lucky for us, there are a lot of ways we can do that and benefit people right here in town: Sue’s …

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Plan a Visit with Santa

Creston Museum December 4, 2020 Celebrating in COVID, Daily Dose of History, News & Articles Leave a Comment

As it happens, Santa loves museums. It’s a little known fact, but they’re his favourite places to visit when he takes one of his rare vacations from the North Pole. So when Santa realised he couldn’t come to Creston in …

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Look Forward to Something

Creston Museum December 2, 2020 Celebrating in COVID, Daily Dose of History, News & Articles Leave a Comment

Today, we think of Advent – or, more specifically, Advent calendars – as a way of counting down the days until Christmas. But this little newspaper snippet from November 1927 hints at a rather different Christian tradition, one that goes …

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Holidays in Quarantine

Creston Museum December 1, 2020 Celebrating in COVID, Daily Dose of History, News & Articles Leave a Comment

Well, December is here, and if you’re like me the new month is making the whole holiday thing a very real, and very pressing, issue. Maybe we aren’t all in quarantine, but with limitations on travelling and gathering, it’s safe …

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A Monumental Mystery

Creston Museum November 12, 2020 Daily Dose of History, News & Articles, Remembrance Day Leave a Comment

A couple of days ago, we shared the story of Creston’s cenotaph with you. One question you may be wondering is: What happened to the original one, the wooden one that stood near the corner of 10th Avenue and Cook …

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Remembrance Days of Days Gone By

Creston Museum November 11, 2020 Daily Dose of History, News & Articles, Remembrance Day Leave a Comment

While you’re waiting to view the virtual Remembrance Day service on cam.swiftinternet.ca, we’d like to offer you some photos of prior Remembrance Day and similar events:

A Monumental Saga

Creston Museum November 10, 2020 Daily Dose of History, News & Articles, Remembrance Day Leave a Comment

11 November 1922: The Creston Valley’s memorial to the Great War was unveiled during a moving and impressive ceremony. It was a moment several years – and considerable drama – in the making. The first local memorial to the Great …

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An Alternative Remembrance Day

Creston Museum November 9, 2020 Daily Dose of History, On This Day... Leave a Comment

This year marks the first time in ninety-eight years that there has not been a public Remembrance Day ceremony at the local Cenotaph. It will seem strange to many of us, not to pay our respects to those who fought …

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Home at Last

Creston Museum September 14, 2020 Daily Dose of History, News & Articles Leave a Comment

It was in its “temporary” home for fourteen years – but at last, the Creston Valley Public Library has a home of its own! Here is the final chapter in the story of an incredible journey that has taken us …

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