Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published Title: Recollections of the Royal Tour of 1901, Author: C. W. JefferysPublisher: Unpublished Manuscript, It was the 15th of September, 1901. ...Here in the presence of Marie, Saskatoon, Prince Albert, Edmonton, Calgary, Banff, Vancouver, Prince Rupert, and Victoria, where they inspected personnel of the Royal Canadian Navy at Esquimalt Royal Navy Dockyard. Macdonald's absence from the welcome reception was depicted as a purposeful insult to the princess by the opposition Liberal Party. Their Royal Highnesses quickly realized the situation: a twinkle of kindly amusement appeared in the Duke’s eye, the Duchess seemed to show some annoyance with the bungling of the arrangements, mingled with sympathy for Mr. Howland; but both, doubtless familiar with numerous similar incidents, retained the impassive decorum that the circumstances required. [57] Similarly, Princess Louise was the one who proposed the name for Regina, from the Latin word for Queen. comments powered by Years later he was killed in the Great war.With the visit to Toronto ended my participation in the tour. [97] Newspapers at the time cited the cause of death as "natural causes. An unexpected item on the programme appealed to the Duke’s sense of humor.
Views Across the Decks of HMS Ophir: Revisiting the 1901 Imperial Royal Tour. He came at once, and found that Eagan had sprained his ankle badly. Couldn’t happen here, many people would probably say. The Rockies delighted them, though one or two who knew the Alps compared them unfavorably to his beloved Highlands, “The Rockies arouse my cold admiration, the Highlands touch my heart.” They all loved Victoria, B.C., “Almost like England, you know.” They deplored our sudden extremes of heat and cold, of which we had a striking example at Calgary, where a morning of torrid heat was followed by an afternoon hail-storm, a chill wind and a fall of over fifty degrees in temperature.The Duke and Duchess were greeted everywhere by singing school children, and the sight of these hundreds and thousands of happy, healthy, well-dressed youngsters surprised and delighted the visitors, though the British journalists got considerable fun out of the almost universal rendering of our national song, and made our car echo with their attempts to imitate the orthodox pronunciation of “Tha mapull leef, our emblum dear.”The magnitude and enthusiasm of Toronto’s demonstration was perhaps the climax of the Tour, and this in spite of most unfavorable weather on the first day.
The first, which travelled generally about half-an-hour in advance of the royal train proper, carried the Countess of Minto, wife of the Governor-General, and her party, Sir Wilfred Laurier and his two secretaries and Mr. Joseph Pope, Under Secretary of State. The usual crowd had gathered to see the royal train, It was instructive to get the impressions that Canada made upon our British friends. [81] Princess Patricia worked for the Canadian Red Cross, and continued working for a Canadian hospital in Orpington, UK, after her father's term as Governor General ended in 1916. Both visits were conducted for military exercises at CFB Suffield in Alberta. [122] On 10 October, as she was touring the streets of Quebec City, a turbulent riot occurred and opposed anti-monarchist Quebec nationalists with the police. I, The Picture Gallery of Canadian History Vol. During his time there, he attended a royal reception, and inaugurated a park. On landing, he was seized by a Spanish patrol, which was waiting for him, and marched to Morro Castle, where he was confined as a spy until released by the interventions of the British Consul. With the 'Ophir' Round the Empire: An account of the tour of the Prince and Princess of Wales 1901. So, when in 1901, I looked into those same friendly blue eyes again, they seemed so familiar that I had the ridiculous idea that he remembered the boy he had passed on Front Street years before.
the guardian of our rights and liberties... We, the humblest of her children, I have not met him since, but he stands in my memory as a handsome young dandy of the Anglo-French type of the time, dexterous in the use of the monocle, and treating the English language with the respect in which so many educated French-Canadians excel us who are born to the tongue. I was in the city of Quebec, as a special newspaper artist on the tour through Canada of their royal highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, the present King George and Queen Mary.
Imagine this: somewhere between 86 and 128 people, captured or surrendered at the end of a siege, are stripped naked, lined up against the side of a cliff, and summarily executed without trial by government forces. One of the French-Canadian lumber-jacks outside the shanty, said to us, choking with merriment, “Dey in dere wit’ de boys, eatin’ pork an’ beans. Royal Yachts. The sovereign presided over a Queen's Scout recognition ceremony in Fredericton, visited the veterans' hospital in Lancaster, and undertook a walkabout in Victoria Park, Moncton. [111] Regardless, the Queen toured the entire country, specifically directing that events she attended should be public, rather than closed luncheons or receptions;[112] further, popular Canadian athletic stars were invited to royal events for the first time, so that during her tour the Queen met with Jean Béliveau, Sam Etcheverry, Maurice Richard, Punch Imlach, and Bud Grant.
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