Last Tributes.
TO LORD STRATHCONA.
DURING FUNERAL RITES.
[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 10.35 a.m.)
Ottawa, January 23
As a mark of respect to Lord Strathcona’s memory every wheel throughout the Canadian Pacific Co.’s huge railway and steamship systems will remain’ stationary for three minutes, while the body is being lowered
nto the grave
Trains will be at a standstill amid the Rocky Mountains and on the prairies and in the cities, and all the workshops will be silent.
The trans-Pacific and trans-Atlan-tic steamers will he stationary in midocean. It is estimated that a million workers will thus pay a tribute to' the dead statesman.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 21, 24 January 1914, Page 5
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107Last Tributes. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 21, 24 January 1914, Page 5
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