{"id":7724,"date":"2022-01-03T20:35:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T20:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=7724"},"modified":"2022-01-03T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T20:47:00","slug":"lost-liberties-exhibit-at-canadian-museum-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/lost-liberties-exhibit-at-canadian-museum-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Liberties exhibit at Canadian Museum of History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I would have loved to go to the opening of this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/liberties\/#about\">exhibit <\/a> at the Canadian Museum of History which explores the three times the War Measures Act has been used in Canada. My grandfather was interned in WWI as an enemy alien the first time it was used and his story is featured in the exhibit. I was invited, but with covid, I opted not to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties1-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"7730\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=7730\" class=\"wp-image-7730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties1-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties1-120x150.jpg 120w, 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src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties8-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"7728\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties8.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=7728\" class=\"wp-image-7728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties8-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties8-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties8-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties8-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties8-1200x1500.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties8.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties3-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"7727\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties3.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=7727\" class=\"wp-image-7727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties3-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties3-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties3-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties3-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties3-1200x1500.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties3.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"821\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties2-821x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"7726\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties2.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=7726\" class=\"wp-image-7726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties2-821x1024.jpg 821w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties2-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties2-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties2-1232x1536.jpg 1232w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties2-1200x1496.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/lostliberties2.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ryan Boyko did go, and he took these pics. Thank you, Ryan! If you want to know more about WWI internment, I&#8217;ve written three books set during that time:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/prisoners-in-the-promised-land-3\/\" data-type=\"post\"> Prisoners in the Promised Land<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/silver-threads-2\/\" data-type=\"post\">Silver Threads<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/dance-of-the-banished-3\/\" data-type=\"post\">Dance of the Banished.  <\/a>Or you can watch Ryan&#8217;s documentary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/That-Never-Happened-National-Internment\/dp\/B07HGGC28H\">That Never Happened<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would have loved to go to the opening of this exhibit at the Canadian Museum of History which explores the three times the War Measures Act has been used in Canada. My grandfather was interned in WWI as an enemy alien the first time it was used and his story is featured in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/lost-liberties-exhibit-at-canadian-museum-of-history\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lost Liberties exhibit at Canadian Museum of History&#8221;<\/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":[262],"tags":[303,437,16],"class_list":["post-7724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-enemy-aliens","tag-grandfather","tag-wwi-internment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7724"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7735,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7724\/revisions\/7735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}