KING AND QUEEN WELCOMED AT VANCOUVER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1939, Page 5

KING AND QUEEN WELCOMED AT VANCOUVER

Brief Voyage to Victoria

STEAMER ESCORTED BY DESTROYERS AND WAR CANOES

RECEPTION BY GREAT FLEET OF YACHTS AND BOATS

By Telegraph.-Jpress Association.—Copyright (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) VANCOUVER, May 29. Their Majesties today reached the Pacific Coast, to receive at Vancouver, the most English of all Canadian cities, one o the most enthusiastic receptions of the tour, says the special representative of the Australian Associated 1 ress. i oie tan 500,000 people lined the 49 miles of the processional route Several groups of tourists, waving Australian and New Zealand flags, were noticed. ~ The King, in an Air Force uniform, reviewed the guard or honour on the pier at which liners from Australia and New Zealand berth. A brilliant day was concluded when their Majesties boarded the steamer Princess Marguerite for a four and a half hours’ trip to Victoria. The Princess Marguerite was escorted by four destroyers of the Pacific Squadron. Twenty-four Indian war canoes, with braves in full war paint, followed the ship to The Narrows, where a vast fleet of yachts and pleasure craft was waiting. From the Lion’s Gate bridge the Princess Marguerite ploughed her way between one hundred seine boats of the Royal Canadian Nava] Volunteer Reserve, spread out in two long lines..