{"id":652,"date":"2016-01-03T18:11:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T23:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/?p=652"},"modified":"2022-07-31T16:51:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T20:51:53","slug":"ve-day-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"VE Day in Montr\u00e9al"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1945, my grandmother worked in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sun_Life_Building\">Sun Life building<\/a> in downtown Montr\u00e9al. A gentleman in her office took pictures of the VE Day celebration from the 17th floor and on Ste-Catherine. He gave copies to my grandmother who passed them on to me. They count among my most precious possessions.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day2sm.jpg\" alt=\"ve_day2sm\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-640\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day2sm.jpg 400w, https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day2sm-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day2sm-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day3sm.jpg\" alt=\"ve_day3sm\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-641\" width=\"600\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day3sm.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day3sm-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day3sm-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>De Havilland Mosquito, squadron unknown.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day4sm.jpg\" alt=\"ve_day4sm\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-632\" width=\"600\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day4sm.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day4sm-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day4sm-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day5sm.jpg\" alt=\"ve_day5sm\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-633\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day5sm.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day5sm-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day5sm-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day6sm.jpg\" alt=\"ve_day6sm\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-634\" width=\"600\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day6sm.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day6sm-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day6sm-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day7sm.jpg\" alt=\"ve_day7sm\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-635\" width=\"600\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day7sm.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day7sm-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day7sm-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day8sm.jpg\" alt=\"ve_day8sm\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-636\" width=\"600\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day8sm.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day8sm-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day8sm-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day9sm.jpg\" alt=\"ve_day9sm\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-637\" width=\"600\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day9sm.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day9sm-150x102.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day9sm-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day10sm.jpg\" alt=\"ve_day10sm\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-638\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day10sm.jpg 398w, https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day10sm-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ve_day10sm-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Eaton&#8217;s department store adorned with the flags of all the armed services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1945, my grandmother worked in the Sun Life building in downtown Montr\u00e9al. A gentleman in her office took pictures of the VE Day celebration from the 17th floor and on Ste-Catherine. He gave copies to my grandmother who passed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgovern.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}