David Milton McGowan

  Remembrance Day has rolled around once again and, as I have done in previous years, I’m posting my Battle of Britain story. However, this time Deacon has a new image since he is the lead in an anthology I published this year (Kindle only). I’m also including one of the rhymes that appears in the anthology, “Native Sons in WWI” which was prompted by a story Francis Beaton Jr. told of his experience. Enjoy.     Deacon Copyright © 2019 David M. McGowan All rights reserved.   No part of this story may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or by any information storage retrieval system, without the permission, in writing, of the author.   The following story is a work of fiction. Any similarity between this storiy and any historical recording of events is accidental and highly unlikely. Any similarity between the characters depicted and any actual ...

  Some of what follows is explained at the end of my short fiction, “Into the Mountains”. However, this might also be helpful and the picture should supply some idea of the scope of the area. The settlement and development of all regions of North America has created some interesting stories. Each area and each story is different and creates interest for different reasons in different people. The settling and opening of the Tomslake area, south-east of Dawson Creek, BC, at least as we understand it today took place in the late 1930s and into the ‘40s. However, I know, from having spoken with a few early trappers and prospectors that there was some development as early as the late 1890s, small though it might have been The “historic” settlement (recorded) is explained somewhat at the end of “Into the Mountains”. Those who were expelled from the Sudeten Land after the Munich Agreement of 1938, many of whom were afraid for their lives when the Nazis moved into their country, had to...