#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:

• Saturday, February 27, 1915
  • Britain producing dummy/decoy warships for undisclosed (but speculated upon) purposes.
     
• Sunday, February 28, 1915
  • Anglo-French fleet is bombarding…

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

• Pictures of the Scandinavian kings that held a conference in Sweden to align their foreign policies and an article about the conference and it's significance to…

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

• Germans push forward near Ypres, but are pushed back again. "Upon the rest of the front there is nothing important to report."
• Man injured near Duncan during construction…

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

• In exotic Africa: Duala, capital of Kamarun, German Equatorial Africa [Cameroon] surrenders to Anglo-French forces; French forces occupy German Congo.
• German Zeppelin…

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

• Editorial summary covers what's going on in the war in Europe
• Diplomatic tensions between Germany and Italy becoming extremely strained
• White Star Line ship Megantic…

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

• German lines, encroaching on Paris only a few days ago, have been pushed back beyond Rheims [Reims].
• 40,000 Canadians already or soon to be overseas.
• Germans not just…

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

"Battle Front Quiet for Day" is the lead headline and the triple trend over the last few days of not disguising the horrors, front-page features of German atrocities…

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

• Headlines and pictures of more troops dispatched from Victoria and Vancouver.
• Japan and Austria officially at war.
• First reporting of trench warfare, that not to say it…

News out of Victoria 100 years ago:
- No declaration of war yet as of the morning edition. A second extra edition is put out with the huge headline "BRITAIN AND GERMANY AT WAR"
- The day prior to the declaration, in my home town of Duncan, a meeting to…