Wed, 2015/10/14 - 12:13pm
#dailycolonist1915 #WWI - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:
In an effort to catch up to being exactly one hundred years ago, this update covers just over a month. There is a lot in this update even though I restricted myself to just one article per day.
Sun, 2015/05/10 - 3:22pm
#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:
News from Ypres continues to dominate the news this week, with Gallipoli taking second seat until another huge milestone of the war, the sinking of the R.M.S. Lusitania, takes place on the 7th, with the news reaching Victoria on the 8th. It seems the endless grim lists of casualties punctuated by the sinking of the Lusitania is too much for some, and anti-German riots break out in Victoria.
Sat, 2015/04/18 - 11:31am
#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:
Sun, 2015/04/12 - 1:10pm
#dailycolonist1915 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:
The general buzz this week is on Russian advances in the Carpathian Mountains. The articles are all short on specifics, even in comparison to the heavily censored news from the Western Front, as all the news from the Eastern European theatre seem to be, so none of them were really worth "clipping". Suffice to say that the Russians have advanced through at least two Carpathian passes into Hungarian territory. The more interesting articles and advertisements from this week follow:
Sun, 2015/03/08 - 3:04pm
#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:
Wed, 2015/02/11 - 9:34am
#dailycolonist1915 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:
Thu, 2015/02/05 - 9:47am
#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:
Excluding the news of a Zeppelin attack on London, it is impossible to look at the events of this week outside of the context of the tyrannical fear-mongering of the Harper government and bill C-51. It can be plainly seen by these articles from a century ago that things are not any more or less dangerous and all that is happening is a profound step backwards toward a time when people, like my great-grandparents, were forced to register with the police and report regularly on the threat of being packed away to forced labour camps simply for the crime of having been born in the wrong country.
Thu, 2014/11/06 - 2:28pm
News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:
• Inquest reveals hospital ship Rohilla that floundered off the Yorkshire coast on the night before Hallowe'en (reported on Hallowe'en) struck a mine and was intentionally run onto the rocks as desperate option slightly better than sinking at sea.
• An Italian priest demonstrates his invention of a portable radio receiver capable of receiving radio signals from over a thousand miles away.
• Spies and more spies...
• British aviators crash and burn, literally...
• Negotiations for a reciprocal trade agreement with Australia going well.
• Washington and Oregon pass prohibition...
• Britain and France officially declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
• Germany reported to be building "super Zeppelins" to attack London.
Tue, 2014/11/04 - 9:04am
The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today: lots of news about the Ottoman Empire entering the war; changes on the Western Front, news from the Panama Canal, and several stories local to Vancouver...
Tue, 2014/09/02 - 8:22am
The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today. As much as yesterday was a slow news day, today was a busy one. My selections are not a comprehensive account of what was interesting in today's paper....
