{"id":141,"date":"2016-04-14T19:16:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T19:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creditriverprobus.ca\/?page_id=141"},"modified":"2019-01-05T17:07:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T22:07:51","slug":"probus-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/creditriverprobus.ca\/index.php\/an-introduction-to-probus\/probus-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"PROBUS in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-page pdfprnt-top-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/creditriverprobus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/creditriverprobus.ca\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 32px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 32\/32;\" \/><\/a><\/div><h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;GET CONNECTED &#8211; STAY CONNECTED&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.probus.org\/canada.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PROBUS<\/a> has evolved into one of Canada\u2019s most successful organizations. As of March 31, 2016 there were 238 active PROBUS Clubs in Canada with 33,596 members.<\/p>\n<p>John Reynolds Morris was the founder of PROBUS in Canada. He was introduced to the idea in Australia, and his Australian acquaintances supplied him with documents and instructions on how to form a PROBUS\u00a0Club. He rewrote their material\u00a0into a document that would apply to Canadian PROBUS\u00a0and began speaking at Rotary Clubs.<\/p>\n<p>PROBUS Clubs in Canada began in 1987 and were exclusively men\u2019s clubs. In October 1990 Women&#8217;s PROBUS\u00a0Club of Burlington, Ontario became the first club for women, and the second was in KitchenerWestmount. Combined gender clubs followed, and today combined gender clubs in Canada far outnumber either men or women\u2019s clubs.<\/p>\n<p>Ten men and women have served as Presidents of PROBUS Canada Central. The 2016\u00a0president is Peter Doyle.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">To read more about PROBUS from the Canada website,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.probus.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">click on this link<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;GET CONNECTED &#8211; STAY CONNECTED&#8221; PROBUS has evolved into one of Canada\u2019s most successful organizations. As of March 31, 2016 there were 238 active PROBUS Clubs in Canada with 33,596 members. John Reynolds Morris was the founder of PROBUS in Canada. He was introduced to the idea in Australia, and his Australian acquaintances supplied him&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":23,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-141","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creditriverprobus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creditriverprobus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creditriverprobus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creditriverprobus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creditriverprobus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/creditriverprobus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creditriverprobus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creditriverprobus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}