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

[This is the largest post in this series to date, with 85 "clippings". There are huge Canadian casualty lists from Ypres, anti-German rioting throughout the British Empire…

#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…

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

I've been busy with some other projects so while I try to keep things under a week at a time, this update covers 10 days. In general the war in Europe is unchanged on…

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

• Saturday, February 27, 1915
  • Britain producing dummy/decoy warships for undisclosed (but speculated upon) purposes.
     
• Sunday, February 28, 1915
  • Anglo-French fleet is bombarding…

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

[The freaking-out over the German shelling of three English coastal cities is now over, and the news has returned to "normal". The news from the western front is the…

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

Today it is not the battles in Europe and elsewhere that make the most interesting news. Today is about propaganda, technology, accidents and speculation:

• An article…

#dailycolonist1914 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:

• Germans are reported to be using some kind of "silent cannon" that makes no noise when fired, that in areas where trenches are very close troops are talking back and…

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

Nothing quite on the level of underwater knife-fights with octopi today (I doubt that is ever going to be topped) but some interesting and almost as exotic news today…

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

Big Sunday paper update today. Lots of interesting things: war news, 100 year-old technology, amazing illustrations and advertisements, and more...

• Map of the current…