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

• Tuesday, April 13, 1915
  • Surrounded by stories of "piracy" and "murder" by German submarines is a story on a secret British countermeasure that is proving effective against…

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

The general buzz this week is on Russian advances in the Carpathian Mountains. The articles are all short on specifics, even in comparison to the heavily censored news from…

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

Stories of German submarines sinking British merchant ships without allowing the crews and passengers to get to lifeboats dominate the paper this week. I've only made a…

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

• Saturday, March 20, 1915
  • The lead story on the front page reports two British ships, the Irresistible and the Ocean, along with the French battleship Bouvet have been sunk by…

#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…

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

• Saturday, February 20, 1915
  • [On the build-up to WWII] Japanese territorial demands alarm the Chinese government.
  • A couple of rental ads for homes in Victoria and farm-land…

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

• Saturday, February 6, 1915
  • [Some heavy-handed partisan politics showing that there is nothing new under the sun.] Conservative British Columbia Premier Sir Richard McBride…

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

[Excluding the news of a Zeppelin attack on London, it is impossible to look at the events of this week outside of the context of the tyrannical fear-mongering of the Harp…

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

• Thursday, January 28, 1915
  • Article on the inconsistent application of the rule of law toward enemy aliens residing in Canada speculates that the Dominion Parliament may…