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

[In an effort to catch up to being exactly one hundred years ago, this update covers just over a month. There is a lot in this update even though I restricted myself…

#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:

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

• Tuesday, January 19, 1915
  • [nothing particularly noteworthy]
• Wednesday, January 20, 1915
  • Spectacular news of a Zeppelin raid over Norfolk County, including the bombing of the…

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

BIG deal today: "For the first time in centuries, England has been stuck by a foe." German ships shelled the English ports of Scarborough, Whitby and Hartlepool…

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

• Front page map of Kiao-Chau Bay [ Jiaozhou Bay / 胶州湾 ] and area around Tsing-Tau [ Qingdao / 青岛 ]. German fort expected to fall soon.
• North Sea officially closed to…

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

A lot of interesting stuff in the paper "today" and I am a bit late getting this up.

• Front page feature map of "Extreme Left in Western Theatre" where the Germans are…

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

Heavy fighting continues on both fronts. Line on the Western front are largely unchanged. On the Eastern front Germans have been repulsed from Warsaw by Russians.

• Indian…

#dailycolonist1914 - This is too good not to give its own post. In the summary of the fighting in Galicia (a province of the Austrio-Hungarian Empire) the paper makes an aside to characterize the Galician people, saying that anyone who has...

...lived…