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By Jill Sperling

Cenotaph Tours

Walking tours present history of Kamloops Cenotaph and stories of soldiers

Nov 1, 2019 | 4:13 PM

KAMLOOPS — The Kamloops Museum and Archives has begun providing free cenotaph tours leading up to Remembrance Day.

Museum Educator Meghan Stewart will provide background on the history of the cenotaph.

The tour examines the local impact of the First and Second World Wars and includes stories of individual soldiers.

It will also include information about the smaller cenotaph nearby, containing the names of students from Stuart Wood School who were killed in the First World War.

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The museum consulted with both the Legion and the Rocky Mountain Rangers in preparation for the tours.

“I think the most interesting thing I came across in my research was that the Rocky Mountain Rangers were actually involved during the Second World War,” Stewart said. “They were deployed into Kiska, which is one of the islands up in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. They were deployed there, they thought that the Japanese had gone into the hills and they were preparing for the final fight. It turned out after the fact that they had actually abandoned the island 18 days previous.”

The 30-minute tour takes place over the noon hour during weekdays in order to include people who work during the day.

Dates and times for the tours are available through the PerfectMind registration service on the City of Kamloops website.

People can also sign up for the tour at the museum, or simply show up.

“Some of the days have got great registration, some of them have almost nobody so I would encourage people to come and sign up and check it out,” Stewart said.