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Tumbler Ridge, World Wars I & II, and Place Names

Cultural, Historical Events, TRUGG HistoryBy Tumbler Ridge Global GeoparkOctober 31, 2014Leave a comment

  Tumbler Ridge was built in the 1980s, when memories of World War II were already forty years old. Therefore it is perhaps counter-intuitive to learn that our community’s connections with the two World Wars are profound.   WORLD WAR I: In 1914 Samuel Prescott Fay led a party of five men and twenty horses…

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