{"id":575,"date":"2026-08-07T16:29:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/?p=575"},"modified":"2026-08-07T16:29:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:29:23","slug":"heading-to-the-niagara-peninsula-for-oceans-of-fate-book-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"Heading to the Niagara Peninsula for Oceans of Fate Book Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Super excited about this one, hosted on <strong>November 23, 2026<\/strong>, by the <strong>Wainfleet Historical Society<\/strong> near Welland, Ontario. Really looking forward to meeting folks in the Niagara Peninsula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The evening kicks off at 7 p.m.<strong> <\/strong>in the <strong>Patrons of Industry Hall ,<\/strong> <strong>Marshville Heritage Park <\/strong>in the beautiful village of Wainfleet. Big thanks to <strong>Janet Hodgkins<\/strong>, UE, President of the Wainfleet Historical Society.  And special shout out to my long-time friend Douglas Willford for assisting with arrangements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"663\" src=\"http:\/\/danblack.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Empress-of-Asia-Postcard-Front-Glenn-Wright-1024x663.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Empress-of-Asia-Postcard-Front-Glenn-Wright-1024x663.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/danblack.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Empress-of-Asia-Postcard-Front-Glenn-Wright-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/danblack.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Empress-of-Asia-Postcard-Front-Glenn-Wright-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/danblack.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Empress-of-Asia-Postcard-Front-Glenn-Wright-1536x994.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/danblack.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Empress-of-Asia-Postcard-Front-Glenn-Wright-954x617.jpg 954w, https:\/\/danblack.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Empress-of-Asia-Postcard-Front-Glenn-Wright-1354x876.jpg 1354w, https:\/\/danblack.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Empress-of-Asia-Postcard-Front-Glenn-Wright.jpg 1601w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A 1932 postcard of the Empress of Asia. First published by the Coast Publishing Co., Vancouver.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super excited about this one, hosted on November 23, 2026, by the Wainfleet Historical Society near Welland, Ontario. Really looking forward to meeting folks in the Niagara Peninsula. The evening kicks off at 7 p.m. in the Patrons of Industry Hall , Marshville Heritage Park in the beautiful village of Wainfleet. Big thanks to Janet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/?p=575\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heading to the Niagara Peninsula for Oceans of Fate Book Talk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,62,64],"tags":[40,14,11,12,45,13],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-history","category-empress-of-asia","category-nautical-history","category-shipbuilding","tag-canadian-maritime-history","tag-canadian-pacific-steamships","tag-empress-of-asia","tag-ocean-travel","tag-oceans-of-fate-peace-and-peril-aboard-the-steamship-empress-of-asia","tag-second-world-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}