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Monsters are Created This Way

Tue, 2014/07/01 - 4:18pm

I admit, I find the six-second video format of Vine really compelling. However I do not like being limited by the Vine app on my phone. But I am not alone in this, and there are plenty of ways of getting around the limits of the apps, which I have now spent the time to embrace.


A Subtle Beginning... July 1, 1914

Tue, 2014/07/01 - 11:56am

BITTER FEELING AGAINST SERVIA

Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and His Wife Followed by Outbreaks in Many Places

AUSTRIAN EMPEROR BEARING UP BRAVELY

Emperor William to Be Only Sovereign in Attendance at Funeral — General Mourning Throughout Country.


Amazing Ads from 100 Years Ago

Sat, 2014/06/28 - 5:20pm
Made it Canada! Canadian Kodak Co.! A camera so easy a child can use it...

A selection of advertisements from the June 28, 1914 edition of The Daily Colonist, Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.


[Gothic BC] Site update for June 28, 2014

Sat, 2014/06/28 - 2:28pm

New site updates since the May 29, 2014 update.

This is an important one that you might want to read since some of your settings have changed.

  • Not that we have ever spammed, but just to be sure we are meeting the letter of the law with the new anti-spam legislation notification for tagging in the photo gallery and comment notifications have been turned off for everyone. If you want to get notification of tags you'll have to go to your user settings and turn the notifcation on. Likewise if you were following comments on any thread, you'll have to go make a new comment on that thread to resubscribe to it.

100 Years Ago Today

Sat, 2014/06/28 - 2:19am

There are undoubtedly a near endless supply of stories out there today about the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the event the sparked the First World War. But what was going on here in the colonies? News took a while to get way out here. What follows is the lead story from the June 28, 1914 edition of The Daily Colonist published in Victoria, British Columbia:


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