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A Major International Television Award!
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We are pleased to announce that our Canadian Television History Series, "The Great Anglo-Boer War: The Canadian Experience," which we produced in Association with History Television, SCN, and ACCESS Television, has been awarded a highly coveted "FINALIST NOMINATION" in the heavily competitive "History and Society" category at the prestigious New York Festivals Television Programming Awards.
We are proud that out of 100 international entries, our program was picked by the jury to be one of the few Finalists selected to advance to the Medal Round - the only Canadian entry to do so. We are flattered that New York Festivals jurors have, once again, judged one of our "economy class" cable channel "series" programs equal in quality to the best mega-budget television history "one-of" specials from leading producers and broadcasters from around the world. |
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(It is the fourth time that a documentary program from a "hard-core Canadian" series we made for an Alliance-Atlantis cable channel has won a FINALIST NOMINATION at the world's toughest television programming competition.)
The Nomination is one of a list of awards, honours, and recognitions which this television series has earned.
Its internationally-praised, associated web site, The Canadian Anglo-Boer War Museum was selected as Web Site of the Month by The Beaver Magazine and the Canadian National History Society, and continues to win plaudits from around the world.
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Feedback: #55: Toronto, ON - "First class! As a Brit - and a history buff - let me just say that it's as good as anything the BBC has ever done, and no doubt done with far fewer resources than the British national broadcaster has available."
It was one of the rare Canadian television programs to be honoured as a Canada Millennium Project. 
Feedback: #65: Tacoma, WA, USA - "Say, I'm not a Canadian but your web site is mighty fine, mighty fine! It really, really inspired me! I'm really keen now to learn much more about this part of history. Man is it fine! And I only saw a small part. Very, very fine work! Just let me say that any Canadian who does not look at your web site has got to be a Communist! And you can tell them I said so...."
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To End a Century of Neglect: In December, 2002, the Government of Canada accepted our proposal to recognize the "people, places, and events" which we featured in our documentary series, and will initiate the procedure to designate some of them as official Canadian Historic Sites. These sites which are all currently completely without signage of any kind, will ultimately receive large bronze informational plaques from the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, the first Canadian Historic Sites so honoured on the African continent.
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Left, the Canadian Commander, Col. Wm. Otter (below) - who is actually Canadian historian Desmond Morton's great grandfather - stands amid the shambles of the Paardeberg battlefield trying to regroup the shattered Canadians as the Boer laager burns in the background.
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| Great Canadian Treasures of Paardeberg: Some of the hundreds of rare antique memorabilia items we uncovered to help "Bring the Past Alive", for this series: (above) This extremely rare Canadian 1900 lithograph of the Battle of Paardeberg was found among the rafters of an old house during a farm auction near Woodstock, ON. It was painted by Art Hider, probably Canada's finest "realist" painter of the Victorian/Edwardian era, and whose work we celebrate in two new pages. (below) The fabulous 1900 "Bloody Sunday" plate which was issued to commemorate what happened on the spot above. (Found in Halifax, NS). (below right) An ultra rare Canadian pin tray featuring a beaver and Col. Otter. (Found at Pottageville, ON.) |
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Through the Belmont Project, we are continuing to mobilize Canadian partners "To End a Century of Neglect" to "Preserve and Protect, Post and Publicize" Canada's South African historic sites in honour of the 7,000 men and women volunteers of another century, who comprised the first military contingent Canada ever sent to serve in an overseas war. Over 300 of them never returned and lie today in remote, lonely African graves. Goldi Productions Ltd. "KEEPING CANADIANS IN TOUCH WITH CANADA" www.goldiproductions Proud Home of - The Canadian Anglo-Boer War Museum & TheCanadaSite.com |
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We are proud that, long after this Canadian television series, and its accompanying website, will have passed from view, the Canadian Boer War Project - which we launched in 1999 to put Canadians "In Touch With" a little known part of their national and international history - will have left permanent educational markers on the ground in South Africa to identify the Great Canadian Historic Sites associated with "The Great Anglo-Boer War: The Canadian Experience." 
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