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Salt Spring in the Great War

Salt Spring in the Great War

A Display Created by Salt Spring Archives
and shown at the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 92
November 2015

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Off To War
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“The Ones Who Have to Pay”

Salt Spring Islanders who went to War

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“Paul Bion in the First World War”

From the Archives extensive Bion collection

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Salt Spring Remembers

The War Shrine, The Cenotaph and WW1 Statistics

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* The title of this section and poems in the display by Kenneth George Halley are from the book by Robert Ratcliffe Taylor: "The Ones Who Have to Pay: The Soldier-Poets of Victoria BC in the Great War, 1914-1918." Trafford, 2013.

The Archives would like to thank the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 92, for hosting this display and helping to set it up.

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Salt Spring in the Great War display panel