{"id":5135,"date":"2015-02-25T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T12:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=5135"},"modified":"2015-02-25T12:47:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T12:47:57","slug":"hotel-symmes-aylmer-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=5135","title":{"rendered":"HOTEL SYMMES, AYLMER, QUEBEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0Took advantage of the recent snowstorm to capture a modern image of an old steel engraving that has hung in my living room for the past several decades. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hOTEL-Symmes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5137\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hOTEL-Symmes.jpg\" alt=\"hOTEL Symmes\" width=\"709\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hOTEL-Symmes.jpg 709w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/hOTEL-Symmes-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0HOTEL SYMMES, AYLMER, QUEBEC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Engraving by W.H. Bartlett, British watercolourist. Images from Bartlett&#8217;s Canadian tour were printed in &#8220;Canadian Scenery, 1842&#8221;. Publication of this work in the UK with its romanticized vision of Canadian scenes became a significant draw for the wave of British migration to Canada in the middle of the 19th century.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/HOTEL-SYMMES-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5138\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/HOTEL-SYMMES-2.jpg\" alt=\"HOTEL SYMMES-2\" width=\"6989\" height=\"8189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/HOTEL-SYMMES-2.jpg 6989w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/HOTEL-SYMMES-2-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/HOTEL-SYMMES-2-874x1024.jpg 874w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 6989px) 100vw, 6989px\" \/><\/a><strong>HOTEL SYMMES TODAY<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Took advantage of the recent snowstorm to capture a modern image of an old steel engraving that has hung in my living room for the past several decades. \u00a0 \u00a0HOTEL SYMMES, AYLMER, QUEBEC Engraving by W.H. Bartlett, British watercolourist. Images &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=5135\">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":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-touring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5142,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions\/5142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}