{"id":2887,"date":"2014-11-03T12:17:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T16:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorewestport.com\/?p=2887"},"modified":"2014-11-03T12:17:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T16:17:53","slug":"wwi-commemoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wwi-commemoration\/","title":{"rendered":"WWI Commemoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/files\/2014\/11\/ID-1007413.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2888\" src=\"http:\/\/www.explorewestport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ID-1007413-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"ID-1007413\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" hspace=\"7\" \/><\/a>On November 8-9, the Elgin and Area Heritage Society has prepared a World War 1 Commemoration event in honour of the men and women from North Leeds (Bastard and South Burgess, Newboro North Crosby, South Crosby, Westport). The EAHS has assembled a large amount of information and material relating to this division, which used the school yard of the Red Brick School as their training ground, of the 156th Leeds-Grenville Battalion.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">The event includes displays, a slide presentation, live music with guest speakers at 1PM on both days:\u00a0<\/span><b style=\"color: #000000\">Saturday, Nov 8 11am-4pm and Sunday Nov 9 1-4pm at the Red Brick School, Elgin<\/b><span style=\"color: #000000\">. Of particular interest is the resonance of these names for the descendants of many of the individuals listed in the displays continue to reside in our area today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 8-9, the Elgin and Area Heritage Society has prepared a World War 1 Commemoration event in honour of the men and women from North Leeds (Bastard and South Burgess, Newboro North Crosby, South Crosby, Westport). The EAHS has assembled a large amount of information and material relating to this division, which used the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,33,36,38,39,53,66,67,69,70],"tags":[407,550,556,942,1213,1846],"class_list":["post-2887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bolingbroke-ontario","category-lyndhurst-ontario","category-portland-ontario","category-rideau-lakes","category-rideau-lakes-ontario","category-things-to-do","category-westport-ontario","category-westport-on","category-westport-ontario-entertainment","category-westport-ontario-events","tag-community-explore-westport","tag-elgin-area-historical-society","tag-elgin-ontario","tag-local-history","tag-rememberance-day-celebrations","tag-wwi-commemoration"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}