Wed, 2015/10/14 - 12:13pm
#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 to just one article per day.
Sun, 2015/06/28 - 11:20pm
#dailycolonist1915 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago.
The bulk of the war lurches on. The Anglo-French push in the Dardanelles continues, German and Austrian forces make a little headway in repelling the Russians in Galacia, all the other fronts are pretty much as they have been for weeks. The American and Germans are tediously talking about the angry letters already exchanged and threatening more stern diplomacy.All the interesting things are more local, the tangential and trivial oddness that has been forgotten, including things that echo some current things because forgotten history really does get repeated.
Sun, 2015/05/31 - 12:41pm
#dailycolonist1915 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:
Italy enters the war. Germans make more gas attacks and the gas being used is identified for the first time. Mine explosion in Nanaimo. Not to mention a fair bit of weird local news...
Sat, 2015/05/23 - 11:54am
#dailycolonist1915 - News out of Victoria, British Columbia, 100 years ago:
Thu, 2015/03/19 - 11:29am
#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 both fronts. The first Canadian contingent is in combat and there are stories from the front. A combined Anglo-French fleet is making its way up the Dardanelles toward Constantinople (Istanbul). The Mexican civil war is still going without any big news.
One article this week is particularly interesting from today's context: a story on an "Armed Secret Society of Foreigners" operating in Ontario.
