Peeking into the past
Image credit: The Globe and Mail On Wednesday, I received a digital version of The Globe and Mail 's 1911 Christmas edition. Based on that edition, you wouldn't know that the world was undergoing technological, artistic, business and political change. The year 1911 marked: a shift in Canadian politics as Sir Robert Borden replaced Sir Wilfred Laurier; the Mona Lisa's theft from the Louvre; the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary in Westminister Abbey; Mexican revolutions; a U.S. antitrust ruling against oil baron and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil prompts the company to divide into 34 companies and results in increased profits; Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant founding Chevrolet; Nobel Laureate Ernest Rutherford's major advances with atoms; the acquisition of Hollerith Tabulating Machine Company (its new parent company would eventually brand itself IBM); the death of Jo...