Michael R. Barrick's blog

Today's news from 100 years ago out of Victoria:
- Austria has officially declared war on Serbia
- Austrian citizens in the prairie provinces are asked to contact the Austrian consulate Winnipeg to find out if they have been drafted
- Russia announces that they won't go to war if Germany doesn't
- A 10-year-old boy in Bella Coola is mauled by a cougar

Lead news in the Colonist on this day in 1914 was about Irish republicans rioting. The first armed clash between Austria and Serbia that now, with hindsight, marks the beginning of WW I, is just a far away border skirmish, and there is still hope that full-scale war can be avoided...

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In the paper 100 years ago:
"WAR IN EUROPE ALMOST CERTAIN"

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

New site updates since the June 28, 2014 update. 

This is both a major and a minor update. Minor in the sense that there haven't been any changes to end-user functionality, but major in the sense that a lot of work went into the back-end this month.

Check out this cool composite Ophelia Overdose made from some of the photos I took for Gothic BC of her on stage at the Sin City 13-year Anniversary.

[ Reposted from my blog on Gothic BC #GothicBC ]

Check out this cool composite Ophelia Overdose made from some of the photos I took for Gothic BC of her on stage at the Sin City 13-year Anniversary.

I admit, I find the six-second video format of Vine really compelling. However I do not like being limited by the Vine app on my phone. But I am not alone in this, and there are plenty of ways of getting around the limits of the apps, which I have now spent the time to embrace.

BITTER FEELING AGAINST SERVIA

Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and His Wife Followed by Outbreaks in Many Places

AUSTRIAN EMPEROR BEARING UP BRAVELY

Emperor William to Be Only Sovereign in Attendance at Funeral — General Mourning Throughout Country.

A selection of advertisements from the June 28, 1914 edition of The Daily Colonist, Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.