{"id":9124,"date":"2014-09-05T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9124"},"modified":"2014-09-05T06:00:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T10:00:22","slug":"impressive-progress-in-valcartier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/impressive-progress-in-valcartier\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressive Progress in Valcartier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/05-Sept-1914_A.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8998 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/05-Sept-1914_A-1024x276.jpg\" alt=\"05 Sept 1914_A\" width=\"670\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/05-Sept-1914_B.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8999\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/05-Sept-1914_B-1024x233.jpg\" alt=\"05 Sept 1914_B\" width=\"670\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY &#8211; 05 September 1914 &#8211; Several months after development and expansion of the new military camp at Valcartier had taken place the Minister of Militia reported\u00a0 to the House of Commons:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOn Saturday, the 8<sup>th<\/sup> of August, Valcartier was taken over, and on Monday the 10<sup>th<\/sup>, ranges and waterworks were begun.\u00a0 By the 20<sup>th<\/sup>, three and a half miles** of ranges were completed, and 1,500 targets were put in position.\u00a0 Up to the same date, 12 miles of water mains had been laid in and, and 15 miles of drains, open and covered had been located.\u00a0 Army Service Corps and Ordnance Corps buildings were constructed, railway sidings laid in, fences removed, crops harvested, ground cleared, streets made, upwards of 200 baths for the men put in, water chlorinated, electric light and telephones installed \u2026and 35,000 men got under canvas in less than three weeks from the acceptance of the call.\u201d<\/em> [3]<\/p>\n<pre>[1] Dodds, Brig.- Gen. W. O. H., C.M.G., D.S.O. (J.A.Millar) Photographs Relating to the Great War, 1914-1918.; Special Collections, University of Victoria Libraries.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/spcoll.library.uvic.ca\/Digit\/WOD\/Individual%20Photos\/03_1.htm\">http:\/\/spcoll.library.uvic.ca\/Digit\/WOD\/Individual%20Photos\/03_1.htm\n<\/a>[2] Ibid.,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/spcoll.library.uvic.ca\/Digit\/WOD\/Individual%20Photos\/04_1.htm\">http:\/\/spcoll.library.uvic.ca\/Digit\/WOD\/Individual%20Photos\/04_1.htm\n<\/a>[3] Debates, House of Commons, 23 January 1916, as quoted by Nicholson, Col. G.W.L., CD., <em>Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War:<\/em> <em>Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919,<\/em> Duhamel, Queens Printer, Ottawa<em>,<\/em> pp. 21.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY &#8211; 05 September 1914 &#8211; Several months after development and expansion of the new military camp at Valcartier had taken place the Minister of Militia<\/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-9124","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\/9124","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=9124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}