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1913::Canadian Pacific Railway Imports 700 Employees from Glasgow, Scotland
Importing qualified employees to work on Canada's rails.
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Jul 26, 20221 min read
1915::Four Gas Masks of World War One
Chemical warfare and the development of protective masks.
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Jul 12, 20221 min read
1868::The Wreck of the Viscata at the Golden Gates of San Francisco
Britain's new iron clipper runs ashore in San Francisco, California.
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Jul 6, 20223 min read
1899::The Secret Whistles of Britain's Pacific Outpost at Esquimalt, British Columbia
Britain's last kick at bolstering her small yet strategic outpost on the pacific ocean.
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Jul 4, 20221 min read
1907::The Lassie and the Lad by Plimley's of Victoria, British Columbia.
Selling the romance of bicycling in Victoria, British Columbia.
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May 30, 20221 min read
1936::Two Queens and the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
A look at Queen Elizabeth II's family tree.
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May 17, 20222 min read
1922::Dunkley's Gas-Powered Baby Pram
A popular British baby buggy finds its way to the Pacific Coast.
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Nov 20, 20201 min read
1920-1923::Farson and the Cowichan Lake Floathouses
An early 20th-century writer who once called a Vancouver Island floathouse home.
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Aug 8, 20208 min read
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