{"id":2,"date":"2017-06-20T10:52:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T14:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webfrostings.ca\/GLASFAX\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2022-04-27T07:34:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T11:34:44","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.glasfax.ca\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>About Us<\/h1>\n<p>Glasfax was founded in 1967 during Canada&#8217;s Centennial celebrations.&nbsp; The driving force behind the early growth of the organization was Thomas B. King, Secretary of the Dominion Glass Company in Montreal, Quebec.&nbsp; Today there are three chapters each with its own features and agenda based upon the four objectives of Glasfax:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>District III with members in the Greater Toronto Area<\/li>\n<li>District IV with a membership based in Southwestern Ontario<\/li>\n<li>District X for members in any other location including the USA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasfax.ca\/?page_id=1130\">Membership<\/a> is open to those who are interested in contributing to our objectives in some practical way.&nbsp; A new member enjoys all the privileges, responsibilities and fun of being a Glasfax member!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.glasfax.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Glass-Conference.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3345\" height=\"2245\"><\/p>\n\t<h6><strong>District III,&nbsp;Biennial Conference, Brantford, Ontario, June 2018.&nbsp; Keynote Speaker Diane Cruxton (holding amber sugar basin) discuss the &#8220;Marquis of Lorne&#8221; pattern with Don Wilson.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Numerous pieces of the pattern fill the shelves of the display case.&nbsp; Another discussion is taking place between Dave and Terry Lowe and Sid Lethbridge.<\/strong><\/h6>\n\t<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.glasfax.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Glasfax-50th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"291\"><\/p>\n\t<h6>Fiftieth Anniversary with a special mini-conference held in London, Ontario. Members from all three districts attend; of particular note was the participation of two Charter Members: Don Kennedy Jr. and Jackie Davis cutting the cake.<\/h6>\n\t<p><a href=\"http:\/\/glasfax.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Fifty-Years-of-Glasfax.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.webfrostings.ca\/GLASFAX\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Glasfax-50.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"126\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t<h6>Click on the logo to read the fifty year history of Glasfax <\/h6>\n\t\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Chalet-Display.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"250\"><\/p>\n<h6>To celebrate Canada&#8217;s 150th, Glasfax mounted a Summer-long display of &#8220;Canadian&#8221; glass at the Backus-Page House Museum , Wallacetown, Ontario.<\/h6>\n\t<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.webfrostings.ca\/GLASFAX\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Jamie-McDougall-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"402\"><\/p>\n\t<h6>A former Glasfax member Jamie McDougall, from District III, making a presentation on &#8220;Trading Beads&#8221; at a regularly scheduled meeting in Dorchester, Ontario.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Us Glasfax was founded in 1967 during Canada&#8217;s Centennial celebrations.&nbsp; The driving force behind the early growth of the&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-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glasfax.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glasfax.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glasfax.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glasfax.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glasfax.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.glasfax.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1682,"href":"https:\/\/www.glasfax.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glasfax.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}