Stories of Unknown Canadians

By Kelvin Bueckert

It's history!
It's what we can still learn from today.
Four stories of obscure Canadians come alive as they are told in the first person. An incident that was recorded as happening on the prairie in the late 1800s is told as a humor piece. Letters found in a local museum are turned into an overview of the tragedy that was World War I. In our third chapter, we remember the efforts of Donald Carruthers to found the Manitoba Agricultural Museum. We end with The Jack Kitteringham Story...the tale of an ordinary young man sent from small-town Manitoba to Hong Kong, just before the Japanese attacked.
Illustrated with vintage photographs, this is a collection suitable for anyone interested in history...or simply anyone who enjoys a unique story about real people.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kelvin Bueckert
• Release date: Nov 7, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393789260

Kelvin Bueckert

Kelvin is a diverse writer who has written drama, humor, suspense, poetry, and pretty much, whatever he feels like writing. His writings have been featured in many different and diverse places such as The Pedestal Magazine, Horizon Magazine, The Fifth Dimension, Writer Online, The Martian Wave, Lyrica Webzine of Romantic Fiction, Bewildering Stories, Alephion, Washing the Color of Water Golden, and many others. As an actor, producer, writer and director Kelvin has been involved with many productions. So, if you have a show in the works, why not contact him? Awards 2nd Place in a Canada Post Essay Contest Honorable Mention in the Unscrambled Eggs poetry contest. Runner up in Breakaway Magazine's Hey World essay contest. 4th Place in the Spinetinglers contest. Outstanding Community Achievement as part of the Austin Manitoba 150th Anniversary celebrations. Garageband, song of the day. Compo10 song contest winner  

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Stories of Unknown Canadians

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Contents

Introduction

1. Letters From the Front

2. The Thing Bout Worrin

3. The Ernest Tester Story

4. Donald Carruthers and the Founding of the Manitoba Agricultural Museum

5. The Jack Kitteringham Story

Bio

Stories From Our Town

Kelvinism 2.0

Introduction

I wrote these short pieces from characters and incidents of local history.

The Thing Bout Worrin was written for Seniors’ Day at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum. It details an incident that is recorded as happening on the prairies just outside of Gladstone.

Letters From the Front was taken from the war letters of Jack and James McAskill. It was written and performed throughout our local school division in honor of the 100th anniversary of Armistice. 1918 - 2018.

Donald Carruthers and the Founding of the Manitoba Agricultural Museum was created for the 60th Anniversary of the Manitoba Agricultural Museum.

If you want to watch some videos of these pieces being performed at various venues they are available on my website.

Thank you for your interest in these stories of unknown Canadians.

-Kelvin Bueckert

www.kelvinbueckert.com

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Letters From the Front

My friends, it’s war out there in Europe! Great Britain is under constant attack by her wicked enemy, Germany! As part of the great and mighty British empire, Canada MUST also do its part in this noble struggle! Therefore, we urgently need brave men to fight on the front line! And not only men! We also need women to work as nurses and housekeepers! So, I ask the men sitting before me in the audience today. Are you willing to do what you know is right, are you willing to do your duty for your King and