Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Melvin Kranzberg 1G, of University City, Mo.; Waryne L. Lees 2G, of Washington, D. C.; Robert H. Llewellyn, of Carlisle, Pa., Dickinson '39; Edward A. G. Luxton, of Montreal, Canada; Marshall Melin, of Chicago, Ill., now teaching at University of Chicago; Charles Meyer, of St. Louis, Mo., now graduate student at Washington University; Franklin B. Newman, of West Chester Pa., University of Pennsylvania '39; Charles E. Passage 2G, of Dansville, N. Y.; Gardner Patterson, now teaching at University of Michigan...
Second Day. Next morning, bound for Montreal, 180 miles up the St. Lawrence Their Majesties boarded the Royal train, a silver, blue and gold twelve-car streamliner with Royal bedrooms connected by a sliding, panel, gold-plated telephones, a lounge car, offices and bedrooms for the staff and party. At every whistle-stop the populace waved frantically, but the only full stop was at Three Rivers, where the King and Queen walked over the tracks on a wooden platform to greet 50,000 appreciative gazers, twice the town's population...
...Montreal, biggest city in Canada and next to Paris the largest French-speaking city in the world, 2,000,000 (again double the population) awaited them. So did mercurial, bouncy little Mayor Camillien Houde, anti-conscriptionist, Italophile (TIME, Feb. 20), a municipal executive with the verve of Manhattan's Mayor LaGuardia and the political slant of the late Huey Long. At the station, Queen Elizabeth delayed proceedings for a five-minute chat with kilted, Black Watch Captain S. S. T. Cantlie, but from then on Mayor Houde stole the show. He and his pert wife stole the Queen...
...Montreal baseball park 50,000 children, mostly French Catholic, 900 of them forming a great Union Jack, sang while the King & Queen sat in an open Buick near home plate...
...Canada staged for the first time in its history a Trooping of the Colour to celebrate the King's "birthday," a celebration conducted since the 17th Century in London by the Guards Regiments. In Canada the troops honored were brigades of Canadian Foot from Ottawa and Grenadiers from Montreal in blue trousers, red coats and great bearskins...