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"West Wylie Story"
April 2005
Childs Auditorium, Deep River
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TRUE STORY!
(sort of)
Although "West Wylie Story" is a fictional story with fictional characters, the people, places, and events are based (loosely!) upon
actual history that took place in the Deep River area in the mid-1940s. There really
was a top-secret ZEEP reactor, built during World War II on expropriated farmland on the south bank of the Ottawa River,
a few kilometres into the stretch of river known to the Voyageurs as "la rivière creuse"
(translated, rather less poetically, as "Deep River"). To learn more about this fascinating
corner of Canadian history, read the following backgrounders:
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