KING AND CANADA.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 250, 19 October 1907, Page 5

KING AND CANADA.

PROSPECT OF A VISIT.

QUEBEC'S FOURTH CENTURY

(Received 8.21 a.m.)

OTTAWA, October 18.

The newspapers at Toronto interpret one remark in Earl Grey's speech at Port Hope as pointing to the prospect pf avisit' toi Canada by King Edward and Queen Jdesandra during 1908, on the occasioa sf the celebration of the landing of Samtjel de .Champlain, the French cokmiser of Quebec

[Earl Grey's speech at Port Hope (Ontario) was»parily- reported in our cables of last evening. It will be four centuries nest year since SamueLde Champlain, one of the. greatest,.,oi, French Colonial pioneers fonndeid the .province of Quebec. Bom at Brqnage, in Samtdhga, in 1567, he made his first" voyage" to Canada' in 1603. In. 1604 to 1607 he was engaged in exploring the coasts, and the founding of Quebec, -followed on that expedition in 1608. m 1612, he was appointed lieutaiant of Canada (amder an. honorary governor), and the following year's were "■Kcnpiedwith attacks on the Iroquois, explorations of the interior, and journeys 1» France, until 1629, when he had to surrender to .an English. Meet, and was tirried captive to. England. Liberated in IK2, he returned- to - Canada in 1633, aid died there in 1635.] I .