This Week in History

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  This Week in History, 1923: Roman orgies, beautiful lute players and the classics of literature

  vancouversun.com - John Mackie

  Daily newspapers in the 1920s always portrayed themselves as paragons of virtue. But they often mixed the lowbrow with the highbrow to sell product. …

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  The Vancouver Sun

  

  This Week in History, 1934: Hollywood gets its mouth scrubbed with soap by the Hays Code

  vancouversun.com - John Mackie

  In July, 1934, Hollywood bowed to public pressure and announced it would self-censor itself with the Hays Code. Read More

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  The Vancouver Sun

  

  This Week in History, 1892: Smallpox hits B.C., and Vancouver and Victoria feud over where it was worst

  vancouversun.com - John Mackie

  On June 20, 1892, the surgeon on the Canadian Pacific steamship the Empress of Japan found one of the passengers from China had smallpox. Read More

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  The Vancouver Sun

  

  This Week in History, 1931: A big canal is pitched for the Second Narrows in North Vancouver

  vancouversun.com - John Mackie

  During the Great Depression, all sorts of public works were pitched as make-work projects for the unemployed. One of the biggest called for a canal …

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  The Vancouver Sun

  

  This Week in History, 1914: The great Pitt Meadows oil boom takes off

  vancouversun.com - John Mackie

  The hype was incredible, but no oil appears to have ever been found. Investors were undoubtedly not impressed

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  The Vancouver Sun

  

  This Week in History, 1870-90: Sex scandal involving a future king rivets the masses

  vancouversun.com - John Mackie

  We tend to think of people in the Victorian era as prim, proper and conservative. But scandal lurked 'neath the surface, particularly among the …