{"id":7846,"date":"2014-08-04T06:47:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T10:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=7846"},"modified":"2014-08-04T06:47:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T10:47:41","slug":"canada-at-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/canada-at-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada At War!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>August 4<sup>th<\/sup>, 1914:\u00a0<\/strong>The British Government was certain the House of Commons would support a policy of resistance to Germany, and on this morning the British sent an ultimatum giving Berlin until midnight to withdraw her demands on Belgium.\u00a0 This went unanswered by the midnight deadline.\u00a0 At the stroke of midnight Britain found itself at war with Germany in support of her allies, Belgium, whose neutrality it had guaranteed, and France whom it supported.<\/p>\n<p>In the many weeks leading up to this date the regiments of the Canadian Militia took steps to prepare detachments for whatever service might be required of them.\u00a0 Amongst the units to do so were the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Regiment, Canadian Grenadier Guards; the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Regiment Victoria Rifles of Canada, and the 65<sup>th<\/sup> Regiment, Carabiniers de Mont-Royal.\u00a0 These regiments, each with proud traditions of\u00a0 its own, had their respective armouries in Montreal, the Guards on Esplanade Avenue, facing Fletcher`s Field; the Victoria Rifles on Cathcart Street west of University Street, and the Carabiniers de Mont-Royal on Pine Avenue, between Drolet and Henri Julien Streets. [1]<\/p>\n<p>On declaration of war each of these armouries became the scene of intense activity.\u00a0 Initially each regiment wanted to send their own battalion to the front, but the Department of Militia and Defence refused to permit this and ordered the three regiments to combine forces.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>[1] Featherstonhaugh, R.C., <em>The Royal Montreal Regiment 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion C.E.F. 1914-1925<\/em>,\u00a0 pp. 4-5<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 4th, 1914:\u00a0The British Government was certain the House of Commons would support a policy of resistance to Germany, and on this morning the British sent an ultimatum giving Berlin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centennial","category-this-day-in-rmr-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7846","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=7846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}