The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today puts as bright a spin as possible on the day.

• Celebration of the a century of peace between Britain and the United States,
• Christmas announcements from the King and the provincial government,
• News of Christmas being celebrated in London and Berlin,
• Christmas dinner for Canadian troops in England,
• Some local news from Vancouver that is unintentionally comical,
• Many, many advertisers wishing people Merry Christmas, and
• Notice that there will be no paper tomorrow due to the holiday.

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

• How the various kings and emperors are planning to spend Christmas, [which]
• [debunks the myth of the spontaneous Christmas Truce of 1914]
• Some rather silly local news from Victoria, and
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyles conspiracy theory about the Komagata Maru.

The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:

• A summary of the state of all fronts,
• Invention of a bullet designed to down Zeppelins [by the perpetrator of the most famous anthropological hoax of all time],
• Outraged Protestants,
• German-American terrorists, and
• A suspicious train collision in Poland.