Homefront & battlefront, Nelson, B.C. in World War II
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Homefront & battlefront, Nelson, B.C. in World War II
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eng
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Homefront & battlefront
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talking book daisy
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Nelson, B.C. in World War II
Summary
With a population of 7000, some 1,300 young men and women from Nelson went off to war in the early 1940's. Seventy did not come home. The last Canadian serviceman to die in action was a Nelson boy. Nelson and district citizens also raised millions to support the war effort, and shipped thousands of pounds of clothing and eight tones of jam overseas. 2005
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