The Daily Colonist, August 26, 1914

#dailycolonist1914 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:

• Headlines and pictures of more troops dispatched from Victoria and Vancouver.
• Japan and Austria officially at war.
• First reporting of trench warfare, that not to say it hasn't been going on for a while, but just the first time this paper has actually written about trenches.
• First aerial bombing of a major city in history. German Zeppelin night-time indiscriminate bombing of Antwerp, an unknown number dead, the airship is downed and crew captured.
• The Governor General, His Royal Highness Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, 1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, third son of Queen Victoria and the first member of the royal family to be Governor General is to open the Vancouver Exhibition (what we now call the PNE) by remote control "by pressing a button in Ottawa, and thereby sending the electric spark all the way across the continent to open the gates..."
    For anyone who doesn't know, the Governor General is viceroy of Canada. All authority of the Monarch in Canadian matters is deferred to the Governor General who signs acts of parliament into law [with veto power] and is Commander in Chief of the armed forces, a rôle similar in position and power to what the President holds in the United States, but largely titular in practice.
• The usual filler articles of German atrocities--killing civilians, burning villages, hanging people from trees along along public roads "to teach people lessons"
• More locally, those pesky Cowichan Indians, nefariously using traditional fishing methods in contravention of agreements (made between whom and under what authority it doesn't say), are completely messing up resort sport fishing, reports Mr. L. C. Rattray, president of the Cowichan Angling Association. Mr. Rattray is also miffed that Atlantic salmon introduced in the river in 1912 have failed to return to river, because surely that was a good idea.

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