Come to the Wandering Moose Café to hear the story of The Band
and the Bocce Green Italians at Union Camp, told by Nanaimo-based popular historian Lynne Bowen.
Based on her latest book Whoever Gives Us Bread: The Story of Italians in British Columbia, Bowen will recount the colourful history of Italians working and living in the mining settlement at Union Camp (later renamed Cumberland) in the 1880s.
Wherever these hardworking Italians went, a bocce green was sure to follow.
This presentation is co-hosted by the Cumberland Museum and
Archives and the Wandering Moose Café. The event is free to attend and everyone is welcome. The author will be available to sign books after her presentation.
It happens May 14 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Wandering Moose at 2739 Dunsmuir Ave. in Cumberland.
Bowen is the author of five books of Western Canadian history. She has won the Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal for writing B.C. history, the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and the Canadian Historical Association’s Regional Certificate of Merit.
Whoever Gives Us Bread was nominated for a 2011 City of Vancouver Book Award.
For for, visit www.lynnebowen.ca.
— Wandering Moose Café
