{"id":8967,"date":"2014-08-25T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T10:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=8967"},"modified":"2014-08-25T06:00:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T10:00:45","slug":"rmr-arrives-in-valcartier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/rmr-arrives-in-valcartier\/","title":{"rendered":"RMR Arrives in Valcartier"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7898\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 873px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/25-Aug-14.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7898 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/25-Aug-14.jpg\" alt=\"25 Aug 14\" width=\"873\" height=\"539\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">RMR troops arrive in Valcartier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY &#8211; 25 August 1914 &#8211; \u201cAt 7:30 o\u2019clock on the morning of August 25<sup>th<\/sup>, the Royal Montreal Regiment detrained at Valcartier Mobilization Camp, situated on a sandy plain sixteen miles north-west of Quebec City.\u00a0 When war broke out Valcartier had been an area of small farms, covered in part with low bush. On August 8, 1914, transformation of the district began; when the Royal Montreal Regiment arrived on August 25<sup>th<\/sup>, roads and railway sidings had been laid, miles of rifle ranges constructed, water and drainage pipes installed, shower baths erected, electric light brought in from Quebec, a telephone exchange placed in operation and a great camp brought into being.\u201d [2]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When the Regiment disembarked most of the troops wore their civilian clothes, suits and shoes, as uniforms were not available in sufficient numbers to outfit them before they left Montreal.\u00a0 It is to be noted that many of the men pictured here on their arrival at Valcartier, although still in \u2018civies\u2019 had been issued some web equipment which they carried over their street wear.\u00a0 The troops lined up in front of those in \u2018civies\u2019 appear to be members of the detachment from the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Victoria Rifles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On their arrival one of the first tasks of the troops was to erect their bell tents.\u00a0 Apparently after initially erecting these tents which would be their sleeping and living accommodation for the next several weeks, they were instructed to take the tents down and move them a short distance away. Then having moved the tents to the new locality, orders were received to move them back again.\u00a0 Being new to the army the recruits were suitably perplexed, but they would soon learn worse was to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[1] Wartime Canada;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wartimecanada.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/Camp%20Life%20-%20Valcartier.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/www.wartimecanada.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/Camp%20Life%20-%20Valcartier.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/pre>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[2] R.C. Featherstonhaugh, <em>The Royal Montreal Regiment 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion C.E.F. 1914-1925<\/em>, Montreal, The Gazette, Printing Co., Ltd., 1927, pg 7.<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY &#8211; 25 August 1914 &#8211; \u201cAt 7:30 o\u2019clock on the morning of August 25th, the Royal Montreal Regiment detrained at Valcartier Mobilization Camp, situated on<\/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-8967","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\/8967","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=8967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}