Michael R. Barrick's blog
Sat, 2014/10/04 - 12:28pm
News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.
• Germans advancing on Antwerp, two of the outer forts have fallen.
• Survey of the conditions of colonies on the west coast and northern areas of Vancouver Island.
• The Sunday magazine, as usual, has a wonderful summary of the weeks events
• Full page travel article on Mount Robson in the magazine section, recently made accessible by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.
• The usual collection of ads and advertising illustrations that caught my eye.
Fri, 2014/10/03 - 7:52am
#dailycolonist1914 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:
- Details of the German cutting of the trans-Pacific cable at Fanning Island emerge as the ship dispatched to fix cable arrives in British Columbia
- Map of Antwerp's defences [Wilrijk is directly between the forts marked F6 and F7 on this map.]
http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1914
Thu, 2014/10/02 - 10:19am
#dailycolonist1914 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.
Antwerp is the big news today. The Germans have been attacking the outer defences for days now. Refugees from surrounding villages have been streaming into the city and also trying to escape north to the Netherlands. My maternal grandparents are living through this, my grandmother would have been 10 and my grandfather 14 at the time.
Wed, 2014/10/01 - 8:57am
#dailycolonist1914 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.
A lousy scan today. No big developments in the war that I could see, anyway, but a couple of interesting tidbits nonetheless:
Tue, 2014/09/30 - 3:18pm
#dailycolonist1914 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.
Mon, 2014/09/29 - 8:24am
#dailycolonist1914 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:
Sat, 2014/09/27 - 1:46pm
News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.
Quite a big update today, lots of interesting things...
Fri, 2014/09/26 - 8:38pm
News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:
• Three British cruisers sunk by a German submarine in the North Sea, 1,460 dead.
• German use of electric searchlights detailed
• [The "Evil subhuman Huns" propaganda machine is in full swing]
• Genuine signs that things are serious...
• Ads that caught my eye.
Fri, 2014/09/26 - 8:52am
#dailycolonist1914 - Let's pretend the paper got rained on this morning. The wife has it in the oven to dry out and I'll read it after dinner tonight...
Thu, 2014/09/25 - 1:14pm
So the "exodus" to Ello is the big deal du jour. Right now, it all bears a striking resemblance to the initial scramble to Google+ that still hasn't really gained traction. There's no real way of knowing at this point.
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