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The Daily Colonist, October 7, 1914

Tue, 2014/10/07 - 8:11am

News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:

• Half page ad for subscriptions [which brings up an aside about the first telephone in Victoria]
• Trench warfare becoming more, well, entrenched.
• Canada to double the number of soldiers it has overseas.
• Nine Austrians captured trying to flee Canada
• 1/4 page add for Russell Cars


The Daily Colonist, October 6, 1914

Mon, 2014/10/06 - 8:37am

News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:

• Tale of arrest and detention as a possible spy of UBC librarian on book-buying journey during the outbreak of the war.
• Absolutely accurate method for converting "Centigrade" [Celsius, used in France at the time] to Fahrenheit
• Argument to stop all nickel exports to enemy nations.


The Daily Colonist, October 4, 1914

Sat, 2014/10/04 - 12:28pm

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

• Germans advancing on Antwerp, two of the outer forts have fallen.
• Survey of the conditions of colonies on the west coast and northern areas of Vancouver Island.
• The Sunday magazine, as usual, has a wonderful summary of the weeks events
• Full page travel article on Mount Robson in the magazine section, recently made accessible by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.
• The usual collection of ads and advertising illustrations that caught my eye.


Tuning Fork, 2012
35mm stereoscopic photograph, photograph.


The Daily Colonist, October 3, 1914

Fri, 2014/10/03 - 7:52am

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

  • Details of the German cutting of the trans-Pacific cable at Fanning Island emerge as the ship dispatched to fix cable arrives in British Columbia
  • Map of Antwerp's defences [Wilrijk is directly between the forts marked F6 and F7 on this map.]

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