{"id":12386,"date":"2016-06-21T10:12:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T14:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=12386"},"modified":"2016-06-21T10:12:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T14:12:27","slug":"rmr-veterans-who-handed-out-izzy-dolls-sought-for-book-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/rmr-veterans-who-handed-out-izzy-dolls-sought-for-book-project\/","title":{"rendered":"RMR Veterans Who Handed Out Izzy Dolls Sought For Book Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12387\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 207px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Izzy-Doll.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12387 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Izzy-Doll-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"Izzy Doll\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Izzy Doll, photo credit: Canadian Military Engineers Association (CMEA) website<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Westmount, Quebec &#8211; 20 June 2016: Local author Anne Renaud is a\u00a0writer of nonfiction, fiction and poetry for children. She is currently working on a project involving the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veterans.gc.ca\/public\/pages\/remembrance\/information-for\/students\/tales-of-animals-in-war\/arts-and-crafts\/IzzySheet_e.pdf\">&#8220;Izzy Dolls&#8221;<\/a> and is looking to for any RMR veterans who have handed them out during an operational tour.<\/p>\n<p>Izzy Dolls are\u00a0a legacy to the late Master Corporal Mark \u201cIzzy\u201d Isfeld who was\u00a0on his third peacekeeping tour when he was killed in a mine detonation on 21 June 1994.\u00a0For more than a decade after his death, Mark\u2019s mother Carol continued knitting the dolls and Mark\u2019s colleagues distributed them. Several friends and other mothers across the country learned of the initiative and joined in. Carol posted the doll pattern on the Internet web so that anyone could make them and send them to Canada\u2019s troops deployed around the world. The network of participants grew.[1]<\/p>\n<p>Please contact <a href=\"mailto:earenaud@yahoo.com\">earenaud<wbr \/>@yahoo.com<\/a>\u00a0if you have information and would like to help.<\/p>\n<pre>[1] The Canadian Military Engineers Association website, https:\/\/cmea-agmc.ca\/heritage-moment\/izzy-dolls<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Westmount, Quebec &#8211; 20 June 2016: Local author Anne Renaud is a\u00a0writer of nonfiction, fiction and poetry for children. She is currently working on a project involving the famous &#8220;Izzy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12386","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=12386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}