{"id":193460,"date":"2023-11-09T17:00:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T22:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=193460"},"modified":"2023-11-09T17:00:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T22:00:47","slug":"kingstons-museum-of-healthcare-to-be-featured-on-the-history-channels-our-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/kingstons-museum-of-healthcare-to-be-featured-on-the-history-channels-our-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingston&#8217;s Museum of Healthcare to be featured on The HISTORY Channel&#8217;s &#8216;Our War&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Museum of Health Care at Kingston has announced that on Remembrance Day it will be featured in an episode of The HISTORY Channel\u2019s documentary series, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our War.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The series itself chronicles the investigations of Canadians as they search through museums and archives to unveil the stories of their ancestors who lived during World War I and World War II. The episode airing on Saturday follows historian nurse Jill Galant as she <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">aims to uncover the story behind a photograph<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of her great, great-aunt, Rena McLean, a Nursing Sister during World War I. McLean made profound contributions to the war effort as a nurse and was tragically killed in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the sinking of the Llandovery Castle hospital ship along with 13 other nurses in 1918.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhat I always like to say is medical history is a very specific topic, but also it underpins absolutely everything,\u201d stated <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rowena McGowan, Curator at the Museum of Health Care at Kingston.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201cIt really is a part of every aspect of history, and that\u2019s true of war history as well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the episode was filmed in April 2022, the museum team has kept it under wraps until this week. The episode is set to feature a variety of artifacts from the museum, focusing on their exhibit on World War I medicine as well as some of their other artifacts related to wartime healthcare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The episode will run <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Saturday, Nov. 11 at 9 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Listen to the story below, featuring an interview with Rowena McGowan:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Museum of Health Care at Kingston has announced that on Remembrance Day it will be featured in an episode of The HISTORY Channel\u2019s documentary series, Our War. The series itself chronicles the investigations of Canadians as they search through museums and archives to unveil the stories of their ancestors who lived during World War&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":193467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,223],"tags":[32585,32582,32586,32580,32583,32581,32579,32584],"radio":[13056],"origine":[267,13051,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193460"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193956,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193460\/revisions\/193956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193460"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=193460"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=193460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}