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qUSYETOMUERD MOM Tour Records Reach Mammoth Proportions

By M. McINTYRE HOOD of Edinburgh made to Canada im) royally entertained by the people day visit to Uganda. cial visit te Canada. Her visits ,state visit to Portagal in Fi (Special London Correspondent) |the fall of 1951, when they tra-|and Governor of that strange ter-|3 fo 7, the Royal Party vi to Commonwealth countries will |TUary, to France in April, to Dea: LONDON—In the press office|velied from coast to coast and|ritory in the South Seas. the George Cross Island of “Mal- be contiited in November of this|™2"* in May, and im October, Y

at Buckingham Palace, there isjbeyond that to Vancouver Island| From Fiji, the Britannia sailed 'ta. and May 10 was sent visiting. hen she will visit G ter her short visit to Canada, a steadily growing file which is|in the Pacific and Newfoundland | on to New Zealand, arriving there | Gibraltar before the final sail for, ¥°*"’ ™’ visit Ghana, ited reaching manimoth proportions,|in the Atlantic. on December 23. For five weeks,|home to complete the .nost a-| Sierra Leone and Gambia. States\and was a guest of Prese a file containing the records of| There is ‘a brief record of the|the Queen and Duke travelled!mazing journey ever undertaken} During the years she has feig-|ident Eisenhower in the visits made by the Queen and sadly-interrupted visit to Kenya)the length and breadth of the two| by any British sovereign. -/mned so far,- the Queen has also/In March of 5 Prince Philip to the far-flung'in June of 1952, a visit ended on|islands, receiving the homage of| Visits to other countries by the| made many visits to foreizn coun- | state visit te the countries and colonies of the/its first day when she received|the loyal New Zealanders. On} Queen in 1955 and 1956 were con-|tries. In the course of her world; The Queen thus comes to Cam Commonwealth and Empire. the news that her Father had|February 3, 1954, they landed inj|fined largely to state visits to|tour of 1953-54, she visited Pan-| ada with an impressive back - | It constitutes an impressive re-|died, and that she was now Queem| Australia, where they spent the|foreign countires, but she found| ama and Tonga. On the way home) ground of travel behind her. An cord, as became apparent when|Elizabeth H of the United King-|rest of February and all of the} time in January and February to/from that tour, she made a visit/on this visit; she will be. Miss Hawkins,’ ene of the press;dom and the overseas dominions:month of March, except for a| spend three weeks on a visit to|to Tobruk, in North Africa, the|ing farther afield and into secretaries at the Palace gavejand realms. four day trip to Tasmania. All| Nigeria. In 1957, Canada was the| scene of much of the bitter fight-| almost inaccessible places, to me, from it, details of the tra-|’ What was the most comprehen-|the states of Australia were vis-| only Commonwealth country vis-jing done. by the Eighth British| extent she, has-never done vels of the Queen and ber hus-|sive tour of the Commonwealthjited, and everywhere a royal|ited, that being from October 12/Army in the Second World War. | fore. And that is all part of band since she succeeded to the|and Empire.ever made by a re-|welcome was extended to thejto 15, on which visit, it will be| In 1956. her- only foreign ven-j pattern which she hms set for

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throne on the death of her fa- igning monarch was trip which! Queen and her husband. _|recalled, the Queen read thejture was a visit to Norway. Im! seit to find out, by actual com

ther, King Geoge VI, on June 6,/began in November, 1953 and e@-| Leaving Australia on April 1,,)speech from the throne at the;the following year, she visited) | + now the people in all

1952. ded in May, 1954, and which took|the Brittania sailed on to the! opening: of parliament, the only Corsica, Sardinia and Sweden. os : - may a onl er vas ommonweal!

Never before has any British|the Queen around the world. At|Cocos Island, where the day of | occasion on which that has been The year 1957 was. another busy sovereign seen so many different|its beginning, the Queen touched| April 5 was spent. The voyage|done by the ruling sovereign of year, during which she made a Empire, live their daily lives. parts of the vast realm which|on Canadian soil, for the first| continued to Ceylon, where the| Canada. E ;

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comes ‘under her rule. stopping place on this world tour | Queen spent from April 16 to 21. | The record, in fact, goes back| was -at Gander, Newfoundland, F ounts TIME HERE | i before the date of Eliza-|where-a brief stop was made on| IN CANADA AGAIN This year's visit therefore || i

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beth’s accession to the*thr- -e. It} November 24 before she flew om} From Ceylon, the tour took! marks the fourth time on which fT starts with the visit which she to spend the next three days i® the Queen up through the In-/ the Queen has set foot on Can-. Eevee Eh De Feeeeend Mo-| Rermedh. aad: Jansen, dian Ocean and the Suex Canal, adian soil, but the third time

ther, and her sisters Princess i Margaret, to South harics in 1947, IN ANTIPODES for a day at Aden. and a three' when she has been on an offi

when she was the Princess Eliz-| AtyJamaica, the royal yacht, abeth, heir-presumptive to the!Brittania, was waiting.to take

throne. the Royal Party on board for the ; : : long sea voyage to some of the! . 1951 RECALLED distant parts of the Common -| It contains a mass of tnter--wealth—and—Empire—_From.De_ 7 ye ;

esting details of the visit which | cember 17 to 19, the Queen vis- : : Princess Blizabeth and the Duke ited the Fiji Islands, and was : a

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“a iam: Late King Visited In1913 The Queens father. King/{present at the manoeuvering;by His Honour the Lt. Governor George-VI first visited Prince Ed- which Was fixed for June 29. and Mrs. Rogers. There were all Telee ue tn 1913 No festivities on a large scale about:30 cadets present, and quite sag mane eat mune, were had owing to the fact that a number of young people of as Prince Albert. He was them the Court was still in mour:.ag Charlasfetown. Dancing was a fea- 17 and among the 65 naval cadets for the death of the, Prince’s ture of the. affair. making a training cruise.on H., granduncle, King George of wages M.S. Cumberland - Greece, brother of the Quéen Mo- LOCALS DEFEATED The Cumberland was on-a-sixther—Alexandra. | In a cricket .match played on months’ tour and had already vis-| Much interest, however, was Saturday afternoon the cadet ited Teneriffe. Trinidad, Barba- naturally takenein the vist Of a team badly defeated the locals. dos, Si Lucia. Jamaica. Port son of the reigning King and heir Te prince acted as umpire Rico, Bermuda and other West presumptive to the.Reilish th*one| Those who met Prince Albert

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4 (ed . e ee s *- e Indian Islatid® hefore coming up and everything was done to make on that eccasion, were impres- y OE : Their Island Visit and Prince Philip to Halifax and Charlottetown, his—brief—stay—a_pleasant one. sed by his vouthful shyness and : .

while it still had to proceed to; The usual official -visits were evident sense of humour H ' : Montreal and Upper Canada fexchanged and on Sunday. the) On his seeond visit to the Pro- WAM. CON DON & SONS Charlo e own Marine Cudmore Drycleaners hii Cns OTTeto

The cruise had been shortened Prince called at + Government vince, 36 years later,“then as by three weeks owing to instrue- House alggg with Capt. 0.C.H. King George VI, he recalled his WOOLLEN MILLS i ie a tions from the Admiralty to re- Smith offttne Kent St. —— turn to England by June 15. im “for? evering 2 -S m2”'a naval cadet on the Comet) oro. * te Admiralty’ io re- was given at Goverpment House ‘and ; : ee ce ; a ae yee : : oe ope fe Sok vies ee oe 2

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