From the archives: Gazette was in no doubt when century began

This story was first published on Dec. 31, 2000, in the Montreal Gazette.What writers, professional and amateur, have been raving about for ten years and more is upon us at last. The real fin du siecle has overtaken us, it has come, it is gone. The new century has dawned.
The Gazette, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 1901What? All that hoohaw a year ago about the advent of a new century  – a new millennium, no less – was just a rehearsal for the real thing? Well, of course it was. [Note: this i