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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.]

http://www.britishcolonist.ca/dateList.php?year=1914


The Daily Colonist, October 2, 1914

Thu, 2014/10/02 - 10:19am

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

Antwerp is the big news today. The Germans have been attacking the outer defences for days now. Refugees from surrounding villages have been streaming into the city and also trying to escape north to the Netherlands. My maternal grandparents are living through this, my grandmother would have been 10 and my grandfather 14 at the time.


The Daily Colonist, October 1, 1914

Wed, 2014/10/01 - 8:57am

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

A lousy scan today. No big developments in the war that I could see, anyway, but a couple of interesting tidbits nonetheless:


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