{"id":8960,"date":"2014-08-23T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=8960"},"modified":"2014-08-23T06:00:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T10:00:31","slug":"12000-men-now-under-canvas-in-valcartier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/12000-men-now-under-canvas-in-valcartier\/","title":{"rendered":"12,000 Men Now Under Canvas in Valcartier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/23-Aug-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7895\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/23-Aug-14.jpg\" alt=\"23 Aug 14\" width=\"392\" height=\"509\" \/><\/a>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY &#8211; 23 August 1914 &#8211; Press reports from Valcartier camp on the night of Sunday, August 23<sup>rd<\/sup> night indicated that 1,500 troops had arrived at the camp on Saturday, and a further 3,700 men arrived on Sunday. Although heavy rain fell throughout most of the day, camp work continued without interruption, only church parades were disrupted.\u00a0 Projections for anticipated arrivals at the camp had by now risen to between 25-30,000 men, and some thought was being given to the formation of a second division.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>[1] W. Marchington, \u201cTwelve Thousand Men Under Canvas: Canada\u2019s Fighting Machine Being Assembled,\u201d <em>The Globe (1844-1936),<\/em> August 24, 1914, page 3.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY &#8211; 23 August 1914 &#8211; Press reports from Valcartier camp on the night of Sunday, August 23rd night indicated that 1,500 troops had arrived at<\/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-8960","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\/8960","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=8960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}