KING AND QUEEN LAND IN CANADA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 May 1939, Page 7

KING AND QUEEN LAND IN CANADA

Dominion Prime Minister’s Declaration

“YOUR MAJESTIES HAVE BUT LEFT ONE HOME TO COME TO ANOTHER”

SPEECHES OF WELCOME AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

By Telegraph-Press Association— Copyright. QUEBEC, .May 17. The King- and Queen landed here today at 10.30 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time). , Their .Majesties first set foot on Canadian soil at t e historic Wolfe’s Cove where the Scottish genera landed 4000 troops before dawn on September 13, 1709, to scale the heig - and to win Canada for the British. _ Before leaving the ship their .Majesties were welcomed b) the Federal Prime Minister, Mr Mackenzie King, and a Koyal Salute of 21 guns was fired as they came down the gangway lO inspect, the guard of honour. After further I ormalitiesr and presentations their .Majesties drove to the Legislative building where the Premier of Quebec, M. Duplessis, presented an address to the King and Queen. _ . , They then proceeded to the Citadel, the ancient loitiess within whose walls stands the Governor-General’s summer house where thev will stay during their visit to Quebec Their Majesties were Die guests of the Federal Government at a luncheon at the Hofei Chateau Frontenac. There the King made his first speech in North America. The luncheon was specially interesting in that, for the first time since Canada was constituted a Dominion in 1867, all members of the King’s Privy Council for Canada, past and present, were brought together. It was also the first time in history that the entire council was assembled in the King s presence. . Al. Duplessis, in the course of his address m the Legislative Chamber, which he read in French, said: “Our province has always been faithful to the British Crown. Equally has it been'faithful to the traditions inherited from our forebears,_ to the Pact of Confederation of 1867 and to that mission which British statesmen in 1791 confided to it to remain altogether French.

“This past we cherish in our hearts. Never shall we cease to consider the Throne as the bulwark of our democratic institutions and of our constitutional liberties. May Heaven longpreserve you in the respectful affection of your many and loyal subjects.’’