CANADA CELEBRATES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3661, 5 July 1927, Page 3

CANADA CELEBRATES.

MESSAGE FROM THE KING.

Ottawa, July 1

Canada’s romantic history, from the days when the first explorers found her shores, to the present day, passed in review this evening before dignitaries of the Government, representatives of the other Dominion, and 75,000 spectators, who covered every foot of Parliament Hill and filled the principal’ streets of the capital. The historical pageant was the climax of a day in celebration of the diamond jubilee of Canada, and was such as Canada has never seen before.

The French element gave the ceremonies an additional touch of colour, the Canadian costumes and the singing of the Dominion anthem “O Canada” in English and French adding to the richness of the scenes of the dav.

The ceremonies began with the inauguration of a Carillon and ended with a State banquet to-night, the whole epitomising the country’s life, and festivities were similarly carried on throughout the Dominion and in various parts of the United States, where 7,000,000 Canadians tesidf. U.-S. PLANE IS WRECKED.

One of the United States army ’planes accompanying Captain Lindbergh crashed when making a landing here ankli Lieut. Johnson was killed.

Captain Lindbergh, escorted by twelve planes brought a message of greeting to the Prime Minister from President Coolidge for the Diamond Jubilee.

The Governor-General (Lord Willingdon), during the celebrations reaid a message from King George stating:—

“While within their own bounds* Canadians have before them the task of developing their ancestral heritage, in the yet wider sphere of tite nation they must lake an everincreasing- share in solving the problems of the Empire, conscious that within it there is perfect freedom and that tin; unity of the nations of the Empire is the surest guarantee of peace in the world to-day.”