What is this all about?

I caught the digital historian flu not long after the birth of the internet and spent the next twenty years researching my family tree. Surprisingly, this journey led me to my own back door here in British Columbia. While digging up the paper trails of my elusive ancestors, I developed a keen interest in local history and encountered many interesting and unrelated stories. Some are funny, some are inspiring, and many read like a gripping novel. The ones that I share here are short-story versions. Collectively, these short stories, and the millions of others that I may never find the time to write, form the foundation of the places I love on Vancouver Island and British Columbia, and sometimes beyond. Newspapers of the past were like the internet of the time, where the information was raw and often left unedited and unchecked. Sometimes, knowing which writer and which newspaper reported the story is just as interesting as the story itself. I hope you follow along and enjoy these amusing and mildly entertaining clips from these old newspapers and other data sources from around the world. You might find, like I did, that Vancouver Island and the province of British Columbia are very special places.

Thank you for your support, corrections, contributions, likes, follows and shares. It's been fun, and I'm happy to finally launch my site.

🚂 Papertown Conductor, April 2, 2022

"Blog in the Works!" "I have a blog that I will one day use to tell these stories in greater detail. A Christmas 2020 launch, maybe." 🚂 Papertown Conductor (First Post on Facebook Page, December 31, 2019)