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August 2015

Hurrain!


The Daily Colonist, July 15–28, 1915

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

A big update as I try to catch up, ending on the anniversary of the event the started the war.


Minor accomplishments are still accomplishments, and they accumulate.


The worst thing you can do to something you think is marvellous is to get someone else's opinion on it.


The Daily Colonist, July 13–14, 1915

#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.


The Daily Colonist, July 8–12, 1915

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

There are several interesting things this week including, terrorists in New York, a renewed German offensive, the fall of German Southwest Africa, the reply to the American note on the sinking of the Lusitania and the expansion of Canadian forces as the casualty list rises. 


The Daily Colonist, July 7, 1915

#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....