December Speaker Series - Spanish Flu

2020-21 Speaker Series is set to begin finally!

Our first event will be virtual, but we’ll aim to return to in-person in the new year.

December 10th, 6pm - with thanks to the West Kootenay EcoSociety, join our lovely volunteer - Linda Gomez - to learn more about the Spanish Influenza (1918).

Join the historians from the Rossland Museum to learn about the 1918 influenza pandemic. Once thought to have killed 100,000,000 people across the world, the 1918-19 flu pandemic is now thought to be responsible for over 200,000,000 deaths world wide. Let's talk about the times a bit.

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Linda was a nurse and nurse educator for many years and always tried to incorporate history into her teaching, which she did in Vancouver and the West Kootenays. The focus of her MScN from way back in the 1980's focused on humour and health. Plagues, pandemics, and influenza have always been a wondrous fascination to her, especially in the way communities and families handled the inherent strife.

Tonight, we'll step through the 'window to everywhere' and explore that troubling time oh so long ago.

 

Thank you so much to the EcoSociety for helping us make this happen! Register ahead of time with the EcoSociety.

Check out their website for other upcoming webinars and to support their work!

Please consider making a donation online to the Rossland Museum.

You can also learn about another epidemic to hit Rossland in 1900 - a smallpox epidemic! With this essay by Ron Shearer

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