Today's Old News
Today’s Old News: Mini Canadian history stories from the newspapers of 1820 to 1930.
Will caribou vanish like the buffalo?
Friday, 27 August 2010 19:00
August 27, 1884. Will wanton slaughter cause moose deer, caribou and other wildlife of the northwest to vanish like the buffalo? The sighting near Medicine Hat of a tiny remnant of the millions of buffalo that once covered the North American plains prompts the Winnipeg Times to sound a warning. Edited excerpts.
The Whitecapping Heroes of Wheatley
Friday, 27 August 2010 00:00
Those who misbehaved were once in danger of being “whitecapped” by their neighbours—dunked in a well, or walked in snow, and thrashed. When a group of vigilantes whitecapped a leading citizen in the town of Wheatley in southwestern Ontario they were brought to trial in nearby Chatham. Penalties were urged. Instead, the whitecappers were acquitted and celebrated.The Advertiser, London, Ontario, reported on July 22, 1905 on the whitecapping of Thomas Dulmage:
Toronto Police Bash Reds and Liberties
Thursday, 26 August 2010 19:00
August 26, 1929. Rev. Father L. Minehan of Toronto's St. Vincent de Paul church endorses harsh police measures to suppress Communists, and scorns newspapers that feature "lurid descriptions of the way in which poor Communist orators were handled," in a sermon reported, with apparent approval, by the Toronto Telegram.
The Light of the Great Lone Land
Wednesday, 25 August 2010 19:00
August 25, 1878. It is “the light that is destined to dispel the gloom that has so long enveloped the Great Lone Land,” Patrick Gammie Laurie promises in the first issue of his Saskatchewan Herald at Battleford, a fur-trading post and police station chosen as the capital of the North West Territories because it lay on the planned route of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
A wildcat oil well shows how to skin Calgarians
Friday, 20 August 2010 00:00
For more than a year, Calgarians were absorbed in the fate of a well slowly pounding down through half a kilometre of rock in search of oil at Turner Valley, 50 kilometres southwest of the city. When in mid-May, 1914, a small flow of oil was encountered it set off an unprecedented speculative spree, as some 500 hastily formed wanna-be oil companies sold shares to eager buyers.
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