{"id":237016,"date":"2019-11-10T00:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T05:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=237016"},"modified":"2019-11-10T00:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T05:22:24","slug":"inauguration-of-the-first-world-war-memorial-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/11\/10\/inauguration-of-the-first-world-war-memorial-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Inauguration of the First World War Memorial Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v5.0\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Voltigeursdequebec\/posts\/1483779198430004?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARBPX1uO5IOtRyCinK6vGfK5QdzfLhInmU4S3nNrFE5llT-bHw44_NufZ8dfjpezPWMXGJMTojmJNn3qAevKM6HNbwBFQZRFx10t22wgl1yTrdniMaSOu2xo9v33luKVYa6YkVckj7baNh5AnkQP7BX8TFylxaI9w9_jDS-xC6UNLrSvZjmzfVHQczpWlYr_UOvXslbgMNY98F_Vh7_0u2QdIOqAf44YSKA38Or_TvJDeSfYOTMsLNr5P3ffVnwvE0HVJERNk4LeMOe_ca-K08aKnS7U5lO2ErXvr3IPW2hiwAAS9IQboq6-6hBR2XiUwluTU-tqTB4ZfR8l6XZmcd-VdA&amp;__tn__=-R\" data-width=\"750\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Voltigeursdequebec\/posts\/1483779198430004\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>Les Voltigeurs de Qu\u00e9bec, les Canadian Grenadier Guards, les Black Watch Canada et le Royal 22e R\u00e9giment ont inaugur\u00e9&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Voltigeursdequebec\/\">Les Voltigeurs de Qu\u00e9bec<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Voltigeursdequebec\/posts\/1483779198430004\">Saturday, November 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-auto\">\n<p>Today, during Remembrance Day commemorations, the Honourable J. Michel Doyen, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, and Jean Robert, the President of the National Battlefields Commission (NBC), inaugurated the First World War Memorial Site on the Plains of Abraham behind the Armoury.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>Quick facts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The NBC partnered with the Voltigeurs de Qu\u00e9bec regiment in completing the First World War Memorial Site where seven German guns captured by the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the war are on display.<\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-CA\">The ceremony took place in the presence of regiments that commemorate the memory of the battalions that captured the guns, namely the Royal 22<sup>e<\/sup>\u00a0R\u00e9giment, the Canadian Grenadier Guards, the Royal Highland Regiment of Canada, the Voltigeurs de Qu\u00e9bec and the Royal Canadian Legion.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-CA\">The site has nine information panels presenting the historical context\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\">(Memories of War and Canada at the Front) and a description of each piece of artillery.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-CA\">The seven guns were taken during the great victories at Vimy Ridge in 1917 and Amiens, Arras and Cambrai in 1918. They bear witness to the efforts and sacrifices of all those who joined the\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\">Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-CA\">In 1926, the War Trophy Commission appealed to the NBC to preserve and showcase the seven pieces of artillery taken from the German Army during the First World War. The guns were installed in different locations on the Plains of Abraham.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-CA\">In 1926, the War Trophy Commission appealed to the NBC to preserve and showcase the seven pieces of artillery taken from the German Army during the First World War. The guns were installed in different locations on the Plains of Abraham.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-CA\">The First World War Memorial Site was financed in part by the Government of Canada.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les Voltigeurs de Qu\u00e9bec, les Canadian Grenadier Guards, les Black Watch Canada et le Royal 22e R\u00e9giment ont inaugur\u00e9&#8230; Posted &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":237017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","mauthors-the-national-battlefields-commission","mauthors-government-of-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237019,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237016\/revisions\/237019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}