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My Covid-19 Heroine – An Appreciation

By Ron Verzuh

The Covid-19 crisis created a new heroine in my eyes: my dear partner and spouse, Leola Olive Jewett-Verzuh. When the virus hit, she pondered...
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Golden City Yarns – A Book Review

By Ron Verzuh

Ron Shearer, Chicanery, Civility & Celebrations: Tales of Early Rossland (Rossland: Rossland Heritage Commission, 2019), 170 pages, $24.95 (paper). Kootenay history buffs have long...
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Follow the Black Cat – A Book Review

By Ron Verzuh

Graphic History Collective, Direct Action Gets the Goods: A Graphic History of the Strike in Canada (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2019), large format, 60...
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Stop subsidizing private health care insurance – A Comment

By Ron Verzuh

Recently, a friend blasted the skeptics who have been poo-pooing Medicare for All as proposed by Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren....
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Codename P9 is official selection in New York

By Ron Verzuh

Codename Project 9, my short documentary film on the role of the Trail, B.C., smelter in making the atomic bomb, was judged an “official...
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Codename Project 9 – A History Booklet

May 17, 2019

By Ron Verzuh

Breaking the Code of Wartime Silence

Reference

Verzuh, Ron. Codename Project 9: How a Small British Columbia City Helped Create the Atomic Bomb (KDP Publishing, 2018), 86 pages paper only, $9 (USD) at amazon.com.

Synopsis

The people of Trail, British Columbia, kept one of the biggest Canadian secrets of the Second World War. Most didn’t know it at the time but they were involved in something of world-shattering importance. Codename Project 9 breaks the wartime code of silence that had settled over the city in the early 1940s and reveals how P9 played a role in the Manhattan Project.

Tags: Codename P9

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