The venerable Victoria Times Colonist turns 155-years old today. I look forward to finding it at my door six mornings a week.
The Times Colonist is suitably unlike other newspapers. The lead story might be about some great concert performance the night before. You never know quite what to expect. I also like the fact that the TC doesn't publish a Monday edition. Unlike most papers it does, however, publish regular editions on both Saturday and Sunday - when more people tend to be home and have more leisure time to read them. It's a nice touch.
As this morning's TC reminds us it began as The British Colonist on December 11, 1858. The four-page news sheet was launched by owner Amor De Cosmos.
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ReplyDeleteBack when there was both a Colonist and a Times, my family read the Colonist, my dad being adamant that it was the only daily that a good Oak Bay Anglican would ever read.
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Mound do you go back far enough to remember the wonderful Sid Barron cartoons that ran in the Times for a while in the late 50's? I don't go back that far but I have an anthology of them that I purloined from my father. With their ever-present seagulls, even today they are still hysterically funny.
Hi Elliott. No, unfortunately, I wasn't in B.C. back in the 50s. It sounds like you've got a pretty good keepsake.
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