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Local author tops national bestseller list

Just one week after the successful launch of Finding Flora at Pynelogs Cultural Centre in Invermere, Elinor Florence’s new historical novel about women homesteaders topped…

Wear your biggest hat to book launch events

Finding Flora, the new novel from local author Elinor Florence, launches April 1 and the author has several appearances lined up in the East Kootenay….

Local author releasing new novel

Invermere author Elinor Florence received her Christmas present early this year — a signed contract with Simon & Schuster for her new historical novel Finding…

Bestselling author being hosted by library

Historical fiction author Elinor Florence of Invermere, a popular and entertaining speaker, will be the featured guest of the Kootenay Library Federation on Thursday, April…

Local author invited to England for VE Day Anniversary

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…

My Dad’s Best Christmas: 1945

By Elinor Florence A few years before he died, I asked my father, Douglas Florence of Invermere, what was the best Christmas he could remember….

Veteran Jean Hubbard joined army on 18th birthday

By Elinor Florence Jean Hubbard, now aged 92, joined the Canadian Women’s Army Corps on her 18th birthday. Wearing her red and white polka-dotted dress,…

Nurse Jessie Lee treated terrible war wounds

By Elinor Florence My admiration is boundless when it comes to the wartime nursing sisters who so bravely carried out their grim duties – so…

Animals that went to war

By Elinor Florence Thousands of our furry and feathered friends performed valuable work during the First and Second World Wars, while most simply provided love…