Author Orland French, author of Letters to Vimy, to visit Huronia Musuem and North Simcoe on Vimy Ridge weekend for mini book tour.

Huronia Museum invites the community for an evening with author, Orland French, discussing his work and the correspondence that inspired this book. Inspired by real letters from his uncle who died at Vimy Ridge, author Orland French writes back to him 100 years later to explain how Canada and the world have evolved. Letters to Vimy will be available at the museum on this evening for purchase and signing.

Other opportunities to meet the author on this weekend include: Saturday, April 8 1-3 pm AUTHOR’S SIGNING at Georgian Bay Books, 247 King Street, Midland & Sunday, April 9 (Vimy Ridge Day) 11 am at the Waverley United Church

About the author: Orland French was born in Midland and raised in Waverley, Ontario, a couple of kilometres from the farm where his Uncle Oscar was raised. He attended Midland-Penetanguishene District High School and graduated in 1962.

Orland graduated from the journalism program at Ryerson University (then Ryerson Polytechnical Institute) in 1965. He followed a journalism career, working in the newsrooms of The Kingston Whig-Standard and the Ottawa Citizen. He was a parliamentary correspondent for The Citizen and wrote a regular (some would say highly irregular) column on provincial and national politics in The Globe and Mail. Later, he taught journalism at Loyalist College in Belleville, Ontario, and developed an interest in local history. He served as president of the Hastings County Historical Society and trustee on the board of Old Hay Bay Church near Napanee, a National Heritage site. This interest led to producing history and geology books on the counties of Prince Edward, Lennox & Addington, and Hastings. For his work as a volunteer in history-related projects, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal in 2012 and the Governor-General’s Caring Canadian Award in 2013.

This event takes place at Huronia Museum, 549 Little Lake Park Road, Midland Ontario, on Friday, April 7th, 2017 at 7 pm. Doors open at 6.30. There is no charge for this event and light refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact the museum at 705-526-2844