Mainland 7 - A Small BC Town has its Own Holiday: Wrestling Day!
Mainland
English - January 14, 2019 08:00 - 32 minutes - 14.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsSociety & Culture History history british columbia canada educational funny fun talk local canadian hobby Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, Natalie tells the story of January 2nd in Williams Lake -- also known as WRESTLING DAY!
Along the way, we learn how Williams Lake, BC came to be, how it's not such a small town, after all, how Wrestling Day was abolished for one year, why we should all celebrate Wrestling Day and why Mainland will never be sponsored by the City of Delta.
Sources/more reading:
(As Natalie mentions in this episode, she quotes from many of these sources! They're good reads.)
-globalnews.ca/news/1752511/wrestling-day-is-a-civic-holiday-for-williams-lake-residents/
-www.wltribune.com/community/wrestling-day-civic-holiday-dates-back-to-1930s-in-williams-lake/
-cariboopolitics.blogspot.com/2015/01/wrestling-day-in-williams-lake.html
-tourismwilliamslake.com/index.asp?p=2076
-williamslakeband.ca/
-en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilcotin_War
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Intro, outro, and middle-tro music is written by Joel Mackenzie. See his music at joelmackenzie.bandcamp.com.