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Addendum to The Daily Colonist for September 13, 1914

Sat, 2014/09/13 - 1:45pm

#dailycolonist1914 - This is too good not to give its own post. In the summary of the fighting in Galicia (a province of the Austrio-Hungarian Empire) the paper makes an aside to characterize the Galician people, saying that anyone who has...


The Daily Colonist, September 13, 1914

Sat, 2014/09/13 - 9:58am

News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.

The war reporting is frustratingly vague again: an advance here, a retreat there, nothing substantial and all of it happening on an abstract, unimaginable scale. German news reporting is lampooned as ridiculous propaganda and the Germans are made out to be callous villains while the Austrians are cowards.

• Aerial battle over France
• Canadian troops to be deployed
• New moon discovered around Jupiter
• and more...


The Daily Colonist, September 12, 1914

Fri, 2014/09/12 - 8:31am

News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.

Once again the news from the Western and Russian fronts is sweeping in scope, vague, and doesn't really say anything. Topics I've picked out today include:
• censorship
• suspicious activity in Calgary
• Deepest, darkest Africa
• and some local interest and beautiful illustrations.


The Daily Colonist, September 11, 1914

Thu, 2014/09/11 - 10:19am

News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.

More of the same in Europe. A Belgian town recovered, German losses and advances in France, Russian advances, it is hard to keep track of what's going on.

• Fighting in Africa
• The world "attrition" appears for the first time that I've noticed
• Saskatchewan brings a knife to the gun-fight
• An editorial about the scale of the war
• Germans and Austro-Hungarians are ordered to register in Victoria.
• The White Star Line H.M.S. Oceanic is wrecked


The Daily Colonist, September 10, 1914

Wed, 2014/09/10 - 10:28am

News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.

News from the front is pretty sparse today. Fighting on the Western Front is spread over a large area with no notable developments. What's remarkable about today's paper requires taking the blinders off and reading with 21st century hindsight. Colonialism, nationalism and racism are assumed truths in 1914. Sometimes it is just a vague, permeating force, and sometimes it is so blatant and bizarrely casual that it is stunning that anyone ever thought this way (but then it only takes reading a few YouTube comments to realize maybe not so much has changed.)
• The beginnings of the Ukrainian Internment
• Paranoia over "Asiatic" immigration and other casual colonial racism
• Weird local news...


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