{"id":289,"date":"2025-11-10T00:41:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T19:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thornhill.day\/press\/?page_id=289"},"modified":"2025-12-19T14:28:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:28:23","slug":"streets","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thornhill.day\/press\/streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<!-- Horizontal Letters Menu -->\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:20px; font-size:18px;\">\n    <strong>\n        <a href=\"#A\">A<\/a> |\n        <a href=\"#B\">B<\/a> |\n        <a href=\"#C\">C<\/a> |\n        <a href=\"#D\">D<\/a> |\n        <a href=\"#E\">E<\/a> |\n        <a href=\"#F\">F<\/a> |\n        <a href=\"#G\">G<\/a> |\n        <a href=\"#H\">H<\/a> |\n        <a href=\"#I\">I<\/a> |\n        <a href=\"#J\">J<\/a> |\n        <a href=\"#K\">K<\/a> |\n        <a href=\"#L\">L<\/a> |\n        <a href=\"#M\">M<\/a> |\n        <a href=\"#N\">N<\/a> |\n        <a href=\"#O\">O<\/a> |\n        <a href=\"#P\">P<\/a> |\n        <a href=\"#Q\">Q<\/a> |\n        <a href=\"#R\">R<\/a> |\n        <a href=\"#S\">S<\/a> |\n        <a href=\"#T\">T<\/a> |\n        <a href=\"#U\">U<\/a> |\n        <a href=\"#V\">V<\/a> |\n        <a href=\"#W\">W<\/a> |\n        <a href=\"#X\">X<\/a> |\n        <a href=\"#Y\">Y<\/a> |\n        <a href=\"#Z\">Z<\/a>\n    <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- Vertical Letter Sections -->\n<h3 id=\"A\">A<\/h3><br\/>\nArnold St. is named after the Arnold family:\n<br\/>\nCaptain John Arnold: A United Empire Loyalist from New Jersey who fled to New Brunswick after the American Revolution before trekking to Thornhill in 1792. He was a veteran of the War of 1812, serving with the York Militia.\n<br\/>\nRobert J. Arnold: John\u2019s son, who became a highly influential local figure. He served as the Reeve of Vaughan Township from 1861 to 1863.\n<h3 id=\"B\">B<\/h3><br\/>\n<h3 id=\"C\">C<\/h3><br\/>\n<h3 id=\"D\">D<\/h3><br\/>\n<h3 id=\"E\">E<\/h3><br\/>\nElgin street is named after James Bruce, the 8th Earl of Elgin (1811\u20131863).\n<br\/>\nLord Elgin was a towering figure in Canadian history, serving as the Governor General of British North America from 1847 to 1854.\n<h3 id=\"F\">F<\/h3><br\/>\n<h3 id=\"G\">G<\/h3><br\/>\n<h3 id=\"H\">H<\/h3><br\/>\n<h3 id=\"I\">I<\/h3><br\/>\n<h3 id=\"J\">J<\/h3><br\/>\n<h3 id=\"K\">K<\/h3><br\/>\n<h3 id=\"L\">L<\/h3><br\/>\n<h3 id=\"M\">M<\/h3><br\/>\n<h3 id=\"N\">N<\/h3><br\/>\n<h3 id=\"O\">O<\/h3><br\/>\n<h3 id=\"P\">P<\/h3><br\/>\n<h3 id=\"Q\">Q<\/h3><br\/>\n<h3 id=\"R\">R<\/h3><br\/>\n<h3 id=\"S\">S<\/h3><br\/>\n<h3 id=\"T\">T<\/h3><br\/>\n<h3 id=\"U\">U<\/h3><br\/>\n<h3 id=\"V\">V<\/h3><br\/>\n<h3 id=\"W\">W<\/h3><br\/>\n<h3 id=\"X\">X<\/h3><br\/>\n<h3 id=\"Y\">Y<\/h3><br\/>\n<h3 id=\"Z\">Z<\/h3><br\/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J |&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-289","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thornhill.day\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thornhill.day\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thornhill.day\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thornhill.day\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thornhill.day\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thornhill.day\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/thornhill.day\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/289\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thornhill.day\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}