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It’s Administrative Professionals Day! Oh, how I wish I could give you a chance to type on a genuine, old-fashioned, thwackety-thwackety typewriter for your daily diversion, but that’s probably not a good idea right now. So, instead, here’s a story …
We’ve been absolutely delighted to bring you daily bits from Creston Valley and the Creston Museum’s collection – and there’s lots more to come, we promise! But we’ve all spent a month and then some in social isolation – great …
Do you realise it has now been a full month since we started posting these daily articles and activities? Which means – well done, everyone! You’ve done the self-isolation and social distancing for a month, and it is having an …
Okay, one last look at the Depression era – after all, we did create a whole exhibit about this a few years ago, so we might as well share more of it with you! Right? Just like the photos we …
Black Tuesday: 29 October 1929, the day the New York stock market crashed. Prairie dustbowls, Bennet buggies, hobos riding the rails, relief workers striking. Most of the common images of the Great Depression of the 1930s come to us from …
Yesterday, we talked about the origins of Creston’s wacky time zone (which might not be wacky any longer, given the recent provincial referendum to do away with Daylight Saving Time). It’s about time the rest of the province followed our …
Things are changing so quickly these days! It seems every moment is bringing something new to deal with! So, for today’s dose of history, we present the story of something that hasn’t changed at all in over one hundred years: …
Just as the fight for Vimy Ridge was wrapping up and the local soldiers there were preparing to move to another battlefield, a large group of men were preparing to leave Creston Valley for service overseas. They were the Forestry …
