This editor is a Journeyman Editor, and is entitled to display this Service BadgeHi Everybody. Wow, a lot has changed in the months since I took my unexpected wikibreak. (My job has been rather time consuming, but I hope to settle back in to a routine again soon). I live in Prince George and was born in Creston. About eight years ago I became fascinated with the history of our local sternwheelers and the era of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway construction. So fascinated that I wrote, and am still working on, a lengthy historical romance novel series set in Prince George, Prince Rupert and Hazelton through 1909 to 1918. In the course of writing them, I've bought and studied many local history books, and have sets of old newspaper articles relating to that period. I have a passion for the pictures of that era too and have several albums of them that I collect. The real history of these towns is far more interesting than anything I could make up and it makes a wonderful background for a long story. The sternwheelers and the big hotels, the railroad, land speculating, the brothels, the honor, the corruption...ect...ect...
My research for these books often led me here to wikipedia, and still does. I'm only now beginning to realize the scope and importance of what wikipedia does and I am enjoying myself here. More writing for free, I guess can't get enough of it.[1] I'm also studying the Great War, and have researched BC's role in it for about three years now. I've read a little of the propaganda/books/poetry that was written in Germany and England before and during that war. HG Wells said that it was a war started by writers, and that seems true enough.
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