Sat, 2015/11/07 - 2:39pm
#dailycolonist1915 #WWI - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:
Drug runners, whalers, pirates, propaganda, protests, Zeppelin attacks, giant telescopes, darkest Africa, Hallowe'en haunted houses, murder and atrocities are just a few of the things I've picked out from October 1915.
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.
Sat, 2015/09/05 - 11:53am
#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.
Sat, 2015/08/08 - 9:15am
#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.
Tue, 2015/08/04 - 10:31pm
#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago: the appalling horrors of war in Gallipoli and a gruesome death on the Malahat....
Tue, 2015/07/28 - 10:14pm
#dailycolonst1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:
I have fallen behind in my "news" from the last century, so I am going to change the way I've been doing this. Instead of week-at-a-time updates, I am going to do as much as I can when I can until I have caught up to the current date. That might mean just one small update like this one, several small ones in one day, or several days in one update if I have a good chunk of time to work with.
Sun, 2015/06/28 - 11:20pm
#dailycolonist1915 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago.
The bulk of the war lurches on. The Anglo-French push in the Dardanelles continues, German and Austrian forces make a little headway in repelling the Russians in Galacia, all the other fronts are pretty much as they have been for weeks. The American and Germans are tediously talking about the angry letters already exchanged and threatening more stern diplomacy.All the interesting things are more local, the tangential and trivial oddness that has been forgotten, including things that echo some current things because forgotten history really does get repeated.
Sun, 2015/06/21 - 1:32pm
#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago.
This instalment covers two weeks to make up for missing my usual post last week. While the Italians are in the war now, and while horrific fighting on both European fronts and also in the Dardanelles continues, the news of it is repetitive and not particularly enlightening. The most interesting and remarkable things, however, are outside that realm: Zeppelin raids, submarine pirates, the (bizarre when seen with modern eyes) casual racism of 1915, and more.
Sun, 2015/06/07 - 9:18pm
#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:
You'd almost think this week's news was a steampunk fanfic and not the actual news from 100 years ago. We've got submarine and Zeppelin pirates, a secret submarine base in Asia Minor, Zeppelins bombing London, the king's birthday, and earls being knighted. We also have the beginnings of forced labour in Canadian concentration camps and the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. But we wrap up the week with good news from Denmark.
Sat, 2015/05/23 - 11:54am
#dailycolonist1915 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:
