Saturday, July 29, 1911. Trade reciprocity dissolves the Canadian parliament.

The Canadian Parliament dissolved over ratification of a trade reciprocity treaty, which the US had ratified but Canada had not.

I wonder what my great grandfather and great grandfather thought of the matter?

An election was called for September 21.

The Persian government put a price of $100,000 on the head of the former Shah who was now attempting to regain his thrown with the backing of Russia, and the opposition of the United Kingdom.

Ricardo Flores Magón argued in an op ed in Regeneración that the liberal/anarchist movement was not a personal political cult in order to distance the struggle of the now defeated Magonistas from individual leaders like Francisco I. Madero.  Infighting was setting in.

Given that, it's not surprising that the U.S. Army remained encamped on the Mexican border.

Camp of 2nd Prov. Regt., Ft. Crockett, Galveston, Tex. July 29, 1911.

The frightening industry of the day carried forward.

Concrete mixing plant,  Kachess Dam, Inlet Channel, Kachess River, 1.5 miles north of Interstate 90, Easton, Kittitas County, WA

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Friday, July 28, 1911. War ending as other prepare for war.

Labels: 1910s, 1911, Australasian Antarctic Expedition, Australian Navy, British Commonwealth, French Army, Haiti, Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Navy, Royal New Zealand Navy

Friday, May 19, 1911. Parks Canada established.

Parks Canada, the Canadian equivalent of the US National Park Service, was founded.

Maneuver Camp, 1st Separate Brigade, Galveston, Tex. May 19, 1911.

Ft. Crockett, Galveston, Tex., parade 2nd Prov. Regt. May 19, 1911.

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Thursday, May 18, 1911. Zapata takes Cuautla.

Labels: 1910s, 1911, Battle of Cuautla, Emiliano Zapata, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Pancho Villa, Pascual Orozco, Texas (El Paso)

Monday, September 10, 1900. Shooting looters.

The Galveston Sharpshooters, a unit of the Texas state militia, began patrolling Galveston and shooting looters.  About 250 such people were shot.

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Sunday, September 9, 1900. Horrors.

Labels: 1900, 1900 Galveston Hurricane, 1900s, Texas, Texas (Galveston), Weather

Sunday, September 9, 1900. Horrors.

The full devastation in Galveston started to become known, while ot the outside world they remained unkown.

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Saturday, September 8, 1900. The Galveston Hurricane makes land.

Labels: 1900, 1900 Galveston Hurricane, 1900s, 1910s, 1915, 1915 Galveston Hurricane, Disaster, Texas, Texas (Galveston), Weather

Saturday, September 8, 1900. The Galveston Hurricane makes land.

The 1900 Galveston Hurricane, the "Great Galveston Hurricane" made landfall.  It killed no less than 8,000 people and maybe up to 12,000 and destroyed Galveston.

It remains the fourth deadliest storm in U.S. history.

The water rose 8'.

Notable in this, this was a slow moving hurricane.  It'd be hard to imagine this occurring today.  In Galveston, it wouldn't, as a seawall was built after the storm which was tested, and passed the test in the 1915 Galveston Hurricane.

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Friday, September 7, 1900. Austro Hungarian Mess.