2023-9 The First Traffic Lights in Victoria

A quick one for this week. I think I'm going to take a break for a while but I will let you know next week. 

It's about the first traffic lights installed in Victoria

  

Have a good weekend and a good New Year

George

No Post This Friday

 There will be no post this Friday, December 22, 2023. I am taking a small break.

Sorry I didn't get this notice out sooner!

Strike! Notes on Historical Transit Strikes in British Columbia 2023-8

Man I am disappointed.

Workers under Pacific Western Transit started a strike today in Campbell River and the Comox Valley (Friday, December 15, 2023)

I thought, maybe it would be fitting to talk about historical strikes.

I haven't gone into full detail. If you want to find out more about a strike (especially pre-digital strikes) please refer to the citations as they can tell you what newspaper and the date. From there use ProQuest or newspapers.com to access it.

Hope you enjoy the article (not the ongoing strike)

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George

The Case of the Elusive Highway 52 (2023-7)

This week's article is about the Heritage Highway in the northeast corner of the province It's on a highway that initially I didn't know if it had history at all. I couldn't find everything applicable but I don't think it's a healthy goal to do find that every week.

Here is the article:

 Enjoy!

George

Identifying a Bridge’s Age by Its Guardrail (2023-6)

Here's the article for today. It's about bridge guardrail and how the styles can be used to roughly date a bridge. It even includes some drawings traced from Google Street View.

Enjoy!

George