Mysterious Times

August arrived across a sweltering British Columbia in 1914 and even the air seemed heavy with portent.None, in hindsight, came close to anticipating the cataclysm that in the coming 4½ years would kill, maim or injure more than one of every 10 men in the province between the ages of 15 and 50, leaving ghosts, ghost towns and deeply traumatized communities in its wake.

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