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GOLDEN JUBILEE CELEBRATED THROUGHOUT CANADA


Quebec Lieutenant Governor Holds Royal Visit Open House... London Monarchists Move City Hall to Name Golden Jubilee Square... Snowbirds wear Jubilee logo... Jubilee Flag Waves over many Communities... Alberta, NS Levees Hail the Sovereign... Expat Canadians mark Jubilee...



After the triumph of the London festivities in June, Golden Jubilee Summer rolled into Autumn, and anticipation built towards The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh's coast-to-coast-to coast homecoming in October, celebrations of Her Majesty's reign continued apace throughout Canada.

The release of The Queen's far-ranging itinerary produced applause for its imaginative breadth - with special attention going to plans for HM to attend an NHL hockey game and drop the ceremonial first puck in Vancouver. Only two negative reactions were voiced: the lack of any obvious opportunity for Toronto residents to welcome the Royal couple to Canada's largest city, and the omission from the programme of an Opening of Parliament by The Queen. The absence of Quebec from the itinerary, caused by the refusal of the provincial government to celebrate the Jubilee, was at least partly overcome as Lieutenant Governor Lise Thibault announced plans for a week-long Royal Visit display and Tea party in her Suite.

Amongst the many parties, concerts, tree-plantings and religious commemorations of the Jubilee, community-based efforts continued to stand out, many inspired by citizen requests. Possibly the most notable of these occurred in the Ontario metropolis of London, where a campaign stretching through Spring and Summer was led Professor Al Boyd, professor and long time monarchist, along with community activist Sandra Barker. The duo succeeded in persuading the city fathers in their Council Meeting on September 3rd to name a large public square adjacent to a new sports and entertainment venue as "Golden Jubilee Square."

The site, covering one-third of a city block in downtown London, was opened on October 24th by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario after speeches by His Honour, the Mayor and Hon. London Branch Chairman J. Alvin Boyd. In a City Council chambers ceremony held immediately afterwards, His Honour presented Boyd with the Golden Jubilee Medal for his long service to Crown, League and community.
,br> Some idea of the national scope of grass-roots desire to honour Her Majesty becomes apparent in a small sampling of recent Jubilee events great and small mounted across her Dominion.
  • Markham, Ontario, decided to name a 3-km Greenway adjacent to new buildings in the fast-growing bedroom suburb of Toronto as "The Golden Jubilee Greenway," which will serve as a parkette for the neighbourhood. It climaxed a year of celebration, led by Councillor Jack Heath and his Committee, with a Royal Tattoo at the Markham Fair held in October.


  • Air Cadets on a National Senior Leaders Course held during July in Cold Lake, Alberta, wore a purple/gold ribbon during the Weekly Commanding Officers Parade in honour of the Jubilee.


  • August found the Ancaster, Ontario, Horticultural Society presenting its Flower & Vegetable Show Jubilee Salute to The Queen with competitions based on such categories as "Royal Walkabouts" and "Crowning Glory."


  • Halifax; Barrie, ON; Bradford/West Gwillimbury, ON; Stellarton, NS and Dorchester, NB are but some of many municipalities which have been flying the Canadian Golden Jubilee Flag or intend to fly it during The Queen's Fall Homecoming.


  • Lakefield College, the Duke of York's old school near Peterborough, Ontario, hung a new framed portrait of The Queen as a Jubilee tribute.


  • The Burrows family of Georgetown, Ontario held its own "Jubilee Bash" for family and friends complete with costumes, "ju-jubes for the Jubilee," cucumber sandwiches, pickled eggs, fireworks by son Bryce, son Christian on trumpet, son Thomas with a scotch-mint designed Union Flag - and Zöe the corgi resplendent in a Jubilee scarf!


  • The controversial Anglican Bishop of New Westminster led his Vancouver Cathedral in worship and song for the Jubilee on a June Sunday afternoon, while congregants with blankets and lawn chairs gathered in September for a Drumhead Jubilee service featuring the local Salvation Army Band, a fife and drum corps and a clutch of bagpipers in Niagara on the Lake's Simcoe Park.


  • Alberta Lieutenant Governor Lois Hole presided at Lethbridge's Jubilee celebrations, which included the planting of 50 rose bushes in HM's honour, and a formal tea. The Jubilee Flag flies over the civic square.


  • The closing service of the Diocesan Choir School in Fredericton commemorated the Jubilee.


  • Over 2,000 Nova Scotians attended the Lieutenant Governor's Jubilee Tea and signed a congratulatory greetings book for The Queen in June despite the damp weather's forcing the festivities indoors at Government House.


  • The Queen sent a message to the Saskatchewan Legislature responding to its Jubilee Greetings. The provincial government published "Images of a Province," complete guide to symbols and loyalty, as a Golden Jubilee project, while the Royal Saskatchewan Museum mounted a Jubilee display on its front wall.


  • The Snowbirds aerobatic team are displaying the Golden Jubilee logo on their aircraft and uniforms, and dedicating their performances to The Queen.


  • Courtenay, BC, named a new public space to include its war memorial cairn as "Jubilee Square."


  • Streetsville, Ontario, held a Golden Jubilee Tea Party outdoors at Cenotaph Square, along with a fashion show, musical entertainment and a hat competition!




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