    {"id":113,"date":"2011-05-18T08:44:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T11:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/?p=113"},"modified":"2011-05-20T06:57:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T09:57:50","slug":"historical-documents-of-the-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Historical documents of the Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are in the pricess of digitizing some of our archival material about the society as well as the cemeteries themselves. Below are three documents about the Society&#8217;s beginnings.<\/p>\n<p>The first is the founding meeting announcement, the second an editorial in the Yarmouth Vanguard Newspaper from August, 1999 and the third is a feature article in the Vanguard published a week earlier, in July of 1999.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_114\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/meeting1999.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-114\" title=\"meeting1999\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/meeting1999-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"meeting 1999\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/meeting1999-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/meeting1999.jpg 875w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Announcement of the First Meeting of the soon to be OBRPMCPS, June 8, 1999<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Vanguard editorial, August 3, 1999 (Click to enlarge):<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_115\" style=\"width: 96px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/small-editorial-vanguard-1999.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-115\" title=\"small editorial vanguard 1999\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/small-editorial-vanguard-1999-86x300.jpg\" alt=\"editorial vanguard 1999\" width=\"86\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/small-editorial-vanguard-1999-86x300.jpg 86w, https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/small-editorial-vanguard-1999.jpg 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 86px) 100vw, 86px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Editorial in Yarmouth Vanguard, August 1999<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Vanguard Feature article on the Society and our earliest efforts &#8211; July 1999 (click on any photo for larger version)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_118\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dawson1OBRPMCPS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-118\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-118\" title=\"dawson1OBRPMCPS\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dawson1OBRPMCPS-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dawson1OBRPMCPS-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dawson1OBRPMCPS-1024x626.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Page 1 of feature article<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_119\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dawson2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-119\" title=\"dawson2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dawson2-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dawson2-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dawson2-1024x646.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Page 2 of feature article<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_122\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dawson31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-122\" title=\"dawson3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dawson31-300x116.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dawson31-300x116.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dawson31-1024x398.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Page 3 of feature article<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are in the pricess of digitizing some of our archival material about the society as well as the cemeteries themselves. Below are three documents about the Society&#8217;s beginnings. The first is the founding meeting announcement, the second an editorial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/?p=113\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cemeteries"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EcR3-1P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}