Thu, 2015/02/19 - 12:27pm
#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago.
Sat, 2015/01/31 - 11:17am
#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:
Fri, 2015/01/09 - 12:21pm
#dailycolonist1915 - The news out of Victoria. British Columbia, from 100 years ago:
Mon, 2014/12/22 - 4:03pm
News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:
• News from the front,
• Afghanistan declares neutrality,
• British aviators bombing Zeppelin sheds in Belgium and the navy bombarding the coast of Belgium,
• Germans running low on resources,
• News of the internment of "alien enemies", and
• a few odd little things of a more local nature...
Sat, 2014/12/20 - 11:19am
#dailycolonist1914 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today.
• A conference of kings.
• Canadians deployed,
• News from all fronts,
• News from Duncan and the Cowichan Valley,
• An insight in the persecutions of "enemy aliens", and
• Editorials and in-depth articles recapping the causes of the war and the predicament and valour of Belgium.
• ...plus some ads that I liked...
Mon, 2014/12/15 - 10:56am
#dailycolonist1914 - The news out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today with the threat of Zeppelins and submarines attacking England, Newfoundlanders' patriotism, "film plays", bank failures and annual reports, and more...
Tue, 2014/12/09 - 8:14am
News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:
• Suspected spies escape from Ottawa to the United States
• Notice received that aviator Earl Annelsley of County Down [North] Ireland was shot down and killed by Germans over Ostend.
• Canada to produce a large volume of munitions for Allied Countries
• Conflicting reports of Russian actions near Lodz, central Poland...
• Japanese have announced they will not be turning captured German territory in China over to China...
• Army base a Petewawa is being converted to a concentration camp for enemy aliens, who will be put to work clearing brush and building roads.
Mon, 2014/12/01 - 7:56am
News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:
• King George braves a stormy crossing of the Channel to visit the general headquarters of the British expeditionary force
• German troops being massed near Ypres [this is the beginning of the build-up to the Second Battle of Ypres, which will happen at the end of April 1915, where the Germans will first deploy chlorine gas and the Canadians will hold their position and become the first colonial force to beat a European power on European soil.]
• 38 men born in Germany and Austria who signed up and went overseas to fight for Canada and the British Empire are sent back to be interned for not having Canadian citizenship.
• Meanwhile, in the ancestral home of my paternal ancestors, Russian forces have penetrated the Carpathian Mountains in Galacia.
• A Canadian aviation corps is formed with 12 aeroplanes. 469 men have applied to be trained.
Thu, 2014/11/27 - 2:49pm
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...
Fri, 2014/11/21 - 8:15am
News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago today:
• In retaliation for the internment of Austrians in Britain and the British Empire, Austria initiates programme of arrest and internment of British subjects.
• Speech by Québec separatist leader Henri Bourassa in Ottawa cancelled due to public outcry.
Government of Canada by order-in-council [i.e. decree of the Governor General, not an act of parliament] bans four American publications with pro-German content.
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