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Join your CCE colleagues and award winning Edmonton journalist and military history author Jacqueline Carmichael for a presentation on the impacts of the Zimmermann Telegram on World War I, with questions and discussion to follow. This topic will cover Americans and Canadians and the Telegram that Sparked Official Allegiance in World War 1, the factors that brought Americans into the war in 1917, and some of the roles Albertans played in the war. The Canadian Club of Edmonton is hosting a Luncheon at the Chateau Lacombe Hotel on Wednesday November 4th. Registration opens 11:30 am, with the program starting 12:00 pm. Please note that this is the first Wednesday of November. Register by October 30th by either emailing cdn1906@gmail.com or signing up online at: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C054EABAF2FA7FCC70-66699780-jacqueline#/ Please indicate whether you'd like a hot plate ($35) or sandwich plate ($30) and if you have any dietary restrictions. About our Speaker: A former newspaper editor and publisher of Westerly News, Jacqueline Carmichael is a journalist for the Edmonton Journal and Postmedia who has written for numerous publications, including the Edmonton Sun, Dallas Morning News, Entrepreneur Magazine, Dallas Child Magazine, and National Public Radio. She is a recipient of the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors award for feature series writing. Her first book about World War I, Tweets from the Trenches, was shortlisted for a Whistler Independent Book Award. Her book Heard Amid the Guns:: Ture Stories from the Western Front 1914-1918 was published by Heritage House in 2020. She is currently working on a third creative non-fiction book about World War I, as well as a Canadian history book about an 1899 river journey based on her great-grandmother's memoir. She lives in St. Albert with her family and two Shetland sheepdogs. For anyone interested, copies of Jacqueline's books will be available for purchase after the luncheon.