Michael R. Barrick's blog
Fri, 2014/10/17 - 10:23pm
Fri, 2014/10/17 - 11:23am
Fri, 2014/10/17 - 8:22am
News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:
• Large photos of Plymouth harbour, where Canadian troops are arriving
• Belgian Queen Elizabeth staying with her husband King Albert at the front, called "an example of dignity and courage worthy of classic times."
• Correspondent recounts experience visiting Canadians encamped on Salisbury Plain.
• German push toward Dunkirk not going well.
Thu, 2014/10/16 - 10:23pm
Thu, 2014/10/16 - 12:24pm
News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:
• Estimated the 150,000 Belgian refugees are now in England
• German reconnaissance aeroplane downed over Ostend.
• It is suggested that London's art treasures be moved to safer locations to protect them from possible raids by airships.
• Canadian troops arriving in Plymouth
• Seventy-five or so men from Vancouver and twenty-five from Victoria currently training in Victoria to serve in Bermuda.
• First British ships arriving in U.K. from the west coast via the Panama Canal.
• Panama canal currently closed do to landslide.
• Boston considering starting a professional hockey team
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