Grey County Historical Society Meeting - The English Trip of 1910

Join us for the Grey County Historical Society general meeting featuring a talk with Mima Brown Kapches - author of The English Trip of 1910: Toronto, Sir Henry Pellatt, the Queen's Own Rifles and the Press Gang. The event is held on Wednesday, September 17 at 1:30 pm in the Thomas Wheildon Theatre, it is open to the public and free to attend.

Dr. Mima Brown Kapches lovingly traces every stage of this celebratory 50th anniversary trip of the Queen's Own Rifles. On one level the work is a personal endeavour to better understand her father’s life experiences, but on another, it conscientiously documents activities indicative of the imperialist atmosphere in Europe which would soon erupt in war. Owen Sound’s Jaffray Eaton, who, at age 30, would later be killed in action at Passchendaele, is given a more human dimension as a dedicated journalist, in the prime of life, and well-regarded by other press members on the trip; Eaton describes everything from iceberg and whale sightings on the Atlantic crossing, to what the boys ate on the train travelling from Liverpool to Aldershot, to the tents, the barracks, the tiring marches, manoeuvres, pomp and parades.

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Mima Brown Kapches
Grey County Historical Society
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