#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…

#dailycolonist1915 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:

• Tuesday, May 18, 1915
  • Three columns of casualties with pictures of local men "Who Have Fallen in Battle" on the front page.
    
  • While not official yet, the Italian government is…

#dailycolonist1915 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:

The news this week continues to be dominated by the German gas attack at Ypres and the Canadian counter-attack that stopped the German advance, and by the on-going attack by…

#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:

[A lot of what happens, or is about to happen this week one hundred years ago has been in the news in the present. The first major gas attack by the Germans at Ypres…

#dailycolonist1914 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.

Not much substantial about the war that I can see today. Not much news at all, really.

• Praise for the Australian navy from New Zealand and Canada
• Broughton Strait (the…

#dailycolonist1914 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.

Quite a big update today, lots of interesting things:

• Fighting in far-away and exotic Africa: border skirmishes between British South Africa and German Southwest Africa…

#dailycolonist1914 - News from Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.

This is the last of the Monday extra editions, and it is pretty scant. It's one sheet of paper again. The two pages inside the fold are the same two-page map that was…