{"id":13050,"date":"2018-11-01T06:22:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T10:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=13050"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:54:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T18:54:05","slug":"a-century-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-century-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"a century ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13051\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/0141d501-45dc-4ef8-b0db-3c43a35ad1ab-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"225\" \/>Toronto<\/strong>. A century ago the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheGreatWar\">Great War<\/a> in Europe was winding down. Many of my ancestors and those of my wife actively participated in the war. I can remember asking my grandfather Kelsey why he joined since he had a good job with the railway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was easy&#8221;, he said. &#8220;My pay envelope had a notice printed on it, &#8220;Your country needs you more than we do&#8221;. And off he went to join the CEF. He was injured in Europe and while recovering in Surry he married and had his first daughter &#8211; my step-mother. His wife turned out to be a good snap-shooter with a simple Brownie camera. Emigrating with him in 1919, \u00a0she photographed and annotated pictures of her growing family. I had the pleasure of having her album for a time before I passed it along to her grand daughter who is the family genealogist on her side of the family.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, November 6th, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kmhs.ca\">Kensington Market Historical Society<\/a> will host a talk entitled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/8b65c493796d\/save-the-date-1105173?e=8af95679c4\">100 Years Ago: Kensington Market &amp; the Great War<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. A century ago the Great War in Europe was winding down. Many of my ancestors and those of my wife actively participated in the war. I can remember asking my grandfather Kelsey why he joined since he had a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-century-ago\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[2275,268,69,2276],"class_list":["post-13050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-first-world-war","tag-great-war","tag-kensington-market","tag-kmhs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13053,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13050\/revisions\/13053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}