Lady Agnes rode the cowcatcher of one of the first trains to rumble west from Ottawa to the British Columbia coast. A canoe-paddling fur trader saw a mermaid in Lake Superior. A Nova Scotia Noah & his followers built "arks" to take them from Pictou to Cape Breton & finally to New Zealand. Horses bolted, running away with a Saskatchewan farmer being chased by his estranged wife in a Hudson Terraplane car.
Come & hear these & other old-time transportation tales from Elma (Martens) Schemenauer's newest books, YESTERCANADA: HISTORICAL TALES OF MYSTERY AND ADVENTURE and the 1940s novel CONSIDER THE SUNFLOWERS. Instructor: Elma (Martens) Schemenauer Date: Thursday November 29, 2018 1:30PM-3:30PM Location: North Shore Community Centre [address 452-730 Cottonwood, Kamloops]. Cost $10 plus annual Kamloops Adult Learners Society fee of $15. For more information on KALS courses & to register, please visit https://tinyurl.com/y8uok3qc .
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