{"id":10239,"date":"2014-12-11T13:27:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T18:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10239"},"modified":"2014-12-11T13:27:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T18:27:51","slug":"1914-aerial-navigation-regulations-for-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/1914-aerial-navigation-regulations-for-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"1914 AERIAL NAVIGATION REGULATIONS FOR CANADA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Friday, December 11, 1914<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>In Camp, West Down South, Salisbury Plains<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day:<em> \u201cAll day rain.\u00a0 Divisional drill in morning.\u201d \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9817&amp;preview=true#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[1]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY: In the months immediately following the outbreak of war, Canadian authorities implemented various security measures including having militia units post sentries at vital installations such as the Lachine Canal and its locks, and the various bridges leading from the island of Montreal. The Victoria Rifles, one of the RMR&#8217;s founding units, were tasked with these duties around Montreal.\u00a0 At the same time the authorities implemented regulations prohibiting the possession and use of certain radio equipment.\u00a0 Another measure enacted was to control aerial navigation over the Dominion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReports and rumours of strange aircraft flying in the vicinity of areas under military guard led to the immediate consideration of a new military arm, and later to the issue of the first regulations to control aerial navigation over Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in the absence of restrictive orders and to avoid international complications with the United States, where most of the machines were owned, the guards were instructed not to fire upon them.\u00a0 By Order in Council of 17<sup>th<\/sup> September [1914] (P.C. 2389) flying within ten miles of thirty-nine wireless stations and nineteen other places in Canada \u2013 including most of the cities \u2013 was prohibited.\u00a0 Under this Order, also, aircraft might not enter Canada except across the southern boundary.\u00a0 Landing areas for aircraft coming from outside Canada were restricted to eleven, distributed across the breadth of the country.\u00a0 Clearance certificates from officers commanding Military Districts were required before a voyage could be resumed, and the carrying of prohibited goods \u2013 explosives, firearms, photographic apparatus, carrier or homing pigeons and mails \u2013 was forbidden.\u00a0 The passage of foreign military or naval aircraft, other than Allied, was prohibited.\u00a0 Contravention of these provisions was declared punishable by a fine not exceeding $5,000 and imprisonment up to five years, but the Minister of Militia and Defence might for special reasons grant exemptions to such persons as he might deem expedient.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0\u00a0 <em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment,<\/em> Dec 11, 1914.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089681.jpg\">http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089681.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n<pre><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">[2]<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 Col. A.F. Duguid, \u201c<em>Official History of the Canadian Forces in The Great War 1914-1919, Vol. 1<\/em>, <em>Part 1,<\/em> King\u2019s Printer, Ottawa, 1938, pp. 15-16.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, December 11, 1914 In Camp, West Down South, Salisbury Plains The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cAll day rain.\u00a0 Divisional drill in morning.\u201d \u00a0[1] THIS DAY IN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-day-in-rmr-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}