{"id":9965,"date":"2014-11-17T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9965"},"modified":"2014-11-17T06:00:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T11:00:07","slug":"a-second-canadian-division-formed-in-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/a-second-canadian-division-formed-in-1914\/","title":{"rendered":"A SECOND CANADIAN DIVISION FORMED IN 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Tuesday, November 17, 1914<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Camp Salisbury Plain, West Down South<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day:<em> \u201cRain. \u00a0Lecture on Musketry in afternoon.\u201d \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9817&amp;preview=true#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[1]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9966\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/17-Nov-1914.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9966 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/17-Nov-1914-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"Montreal High School, Peel Street, c1895\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Montreal High School, Peel Street, c1895<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY: \u00a0Early in October of 1914, as a result of the huge response to the call for recruits for the First Canadian Contingent, and the call by the British authorities for more troops, Canadian authorities realized that a Second Canadian Division should be organized. \u00a0The First Canadian Contingent, now at Salisbury Plain in southern England, was proceeding with their training under very difficult weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Recruiting for the Second Canadian Contingent, was moving along at a very rapid pace back in Canada. \u00a0All across Canada units had been brought up to strength, men were being processed, equipment issued, and training commenced. \u00a0In Montreal one site for such activity was the old Montreal High School building located on Peel Street, north of Ste. Catherine St. where the Mount Royal Hotel was built in 1922. \u00a0Another busy location was the Craig Street Drill Hall which was demolished about 1970.<\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0<i>War Diary, 14<\/i><i>th<\/i><i> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/i>, Nov 17, 1914. \u00a0Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089676.jpg\">http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089676.jpg\n\n[<\/a>2] <i>The Montreal Daily Mail<\/i>, Wednesday, November 18, 1914, pg. 12, cols 5, 6 &amp; 7. \u00a0\n\n\n<\/pre>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, November 17, 1914 Camp Salisbury Plain, West Down South The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cRain. \u00a0Lecture on Musketry in afternoon.\u201d \u00a0[1] THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:<\/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-9965","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\/9965","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=9965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}