{"id":80240,"date":"2022-09-08T18:31:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T22:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=80240"},"modified":"2022-09-08T18:32:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T22:32:54","slug":"remembering-queen-elizabeth-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/09\/remembering-queen-elizabeth-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Queen Elizabeth II\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Canada\u2019s longest-reigning monarch and head of state, passed away Thursday at the age of 96.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cOn behalf of the entire Brock community, I\u2019d like to express my sincerest condolences on the passing of Queen Elizabeth II,\u201d says Lynn Wells, Brock University&#8217;s Interim President and Vice-Chancellor. \u201cBrock has lowered its flags on campus, and they will remain lowered in remembrance of the Queen until her funeral.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Queen Elizabeth II visited Niagara twice: in 1951 as princess and in 1973 as Queen.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Among Brock\u2019s connections to the monarch was Arthur Schmon, Chair of the University\u2019s Founder\u2019s Committee. Schmon and his wife Celeste were <a href=\"https:\/\/exhibits.library.brocku.ca\/s\/arthur-a-schmon\/page\/ASfacts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">invited to the Queen\u2019s coronation<\/a> at Buckingham Palace in 1953, the ticket for which now resides in Brock University Library\u2019s Archives and Special Collections. (SEE ABOVE IMAGE)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Canada\u2019s longest-reigning monarch and head of state, passed away Thursday at the age of 96.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3319,1],"tags":[5682,2701],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80243,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80240\/revisions\/80243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}