Today's Old News
Today’s Old News: Mini Canadian history stories from the newspapers of 1820 to 1930.
Maritimers reject pacifist movement
Thursday, 02 September 2010 19:00
September 2, 1924. A pacifist movement denouncing war, arising from the horrors of the First World War, swept much of Britain and North America in the 1920s and early 1930s. The movement failed to move the Maritime Provinces, as indicated in this item from the Halifax Herald.
Feminine attire corrupts morals
Tuesday, 31 August 2010 19:00
August 31, 1928. Monsignor Emmanuel Celestin Suhard, Bishop of Lisieux, France, has announced a worldwide crusade against immodesty in feminine attire, the Toronto Telegram reports.
Efforts to suppress immoral plays, improper films and pornographic books also will be made.
Naked sectarianism, bigotry and misogyny
Monday, 30 August 2010 19:00
August 30, 1924. Early 20th-century naked bigotry, sectarianism and misogyny are on prominent display in this day's issue of the Toronto Star, with the reported teaching and preaching of a U.S. evangelist and self-styled "Texas Tornado."
Conscription riots and attempted murder
Sunday, 29 August 2010 19:00
August 29, 1917. First World War military conscription became law on this date, and protesting rioters in Montreal smashed store windows. Arrests soon followed, including a group charged with attempting to murder Montreal Star publisher Hugh Graham, a strong conscription advocate, and his family, by dynamiting their summer home. The dynamiters also allegedly planned to blow up the Parliament buildings and assassinate Prime Minister Robert Borden.
Canada's paper tax enslaves Nova Scotians
Saturday, 28 August 2010 19:00
August 28, 1868. Among the chains of Confederation with which Canada has enslaved Nova Scotians, none is worse than the newspaper tax-as seen by the Halifax Acadian Recorder in this editorial.
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