Michael R. Barrick's blog

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Haven't done a site update for few months. I've kind of forgotten some of the things I have fixed. There have been tweaks to the automatic feeds out to social media. I've fixed up the inactive user maintenance and added some additional hoops to trip up spambots and some other back-end stuff that probably only I ever noticed anyway.

#dailycolonist1915 #WWI - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago. 

German savagery and terrorism, the anniversary of the British Empire declaring war, fall of Warsaw, American occupation of Haiti, and the creation of the Revelstoke internment camp. [I planned to cover more days in this installment, but the Internet Archive is down for maintenance today.]

#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago.

Honours for the Canadian Prime Minister, genocide in Syria, new and horrible war technologies, a famous electric chair execution, legal haggling over Kits Point, progress on the world's largest telescope, news of a good whaling season, Victoria man's body killed in the sinking of the Lusitania recovered in Ireland, and amazing entertainment at the Pantages.  

#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago.

A big update as I try to catch up, ending on the anniversary of the event the started the war.

#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:

In a mere two days we have genocide, secret agents, conspiracy, awards from the king, real technology that reads like steampunk fiction and a new university.

#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:

There are several interesting things this week including, terrorists in New York, a renewed German offensive, the fall of German Southwest Africa, the reply to the American note on the sinking of the Lusitania and the expansion of Canadian forces as the casualty list rises.