Elinor Florence of Invermere, who wrote the bestselling wartime novel Bird’s Eye View, will be one of the guest speakers at a special event in…
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Cranbrook author releasing third novel
Dave Butler’s award-winning Jenny Willson Mystery Series continues Toronto’s Dundurn Press will publish/release In Rhino We Trust, the third novel in author Dave Butler’s award-winning…
Local author up for two national awards
Cranbrook’s Dave Butler is up for two national writing awards for his first novel Full Curl: A Jenny Willson Mystery. Butler has been shortlisted for…
Dresden Cathedral rose from the ashes
By Elinor Florence I’ve been saving this subject for the Christmas season because it is so inspirational. The rebuilding of the bombed-out Church of Our…
New book features 10 stories of EK veterans
Ten stories about East Kootenay Second World War veterans are told in a new collection of 28 compelling interviews by bestselling author Elinor Florence of…
Fred Sutherland: The Last Canadian Dambuster
By Elinor Florence Fred Sutherland of Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, is now Canada’s last surviving Dambuster – one of only two men left in the…
How Canadian kids helped the war effort
By Elinor Florence When the Second World War raged around the planet, how were children protected from the horrors? The short answer: they weren’t. Canadian kids…
Bird’s Eye View author to speak at library
The author of an exciting new wartime novel called Bird’s Eye View will present a highly-entertaining talk and slide show of vintage photographs at the…
Lady Orchid keeps our Canadian Lancaster aloft
By Elinor Florence There’s still one iconic Canadian Lancaster bomber in the air, flying out of Hamilton, Ontario – and the man indirectly responsible for…
Kootenay girls trained to defend Canada
By Elinor Florence Fearing an enemy invasion, thousands of Canadian girls as young as 16 joined volunteer militia groups across the country in the Second…