{"id":7948,"date":"2014-08-13T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=7948"},"modified":"2014-08-13T06:00:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T10:00:59","slug":"largest-parade-ever-held-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/largest-parade-ever-held-in-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest Parade Ever Held in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/13-Aug-14_A.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7883 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/13-Aug-14_A-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"13 Aug 14_A\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY &#8211; 13 August 1914 &#8211; Against ever darkening war clouds over Europe, Canadian Militia units continued to mobilize and parade. \u00a0On August 13<sup>th<\/sup> 1914, an article in The Gazette, of Montreal, told of a parade of the entire Montreal Garrison to be held the next evening, Friday, August 14<sup>th<\/sup> on the Champ de Mars, in downtown Montreal.\u00a0 The parade was to be reviewed by Col. the Hon. Sam Hughes, Minister of Militia.<\/p>\n<p>It was billed as the largest and most spectacular parade ever to be held in Montreal, not merely because of the numbers involved, but because a large percentage of the men would be making their last formal parade in Montreal before going abroad on foreign service.\u00a0 [4]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/13-Aug-14_B.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7884 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/13-Aug-14_B-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"13 Aug 14_B\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>[1]The Montreal Daily Mail, Thursday, August 13, 1914, pg. 1.<\/pre>\n<pre>[2] The Montreal Daily Mail, Wednesday, August 12, 1914, pg. 2, col. 6.<\/pre>\n<pre>[3] The Gazette, Montreal, Thurs. Aug 13, 1914, pg.4, col.4.<\/pre>\n<pre>[4] Ibid., pg. 4, col.4.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY &#8211; 13 August 1914 &#8211; Against ever darkening war clouds over Europe, Canadian Militia units continued to mobilize and parade. \u00a0On August 13th 1914, an<\/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-7948","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\/7948","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=7948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}