Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King was willing to relax the requirements, and instead of a ton of meat on the hoof and a pair of rambunctious rodents, accepted two mighty-antlered mounted heads and the choicest pair of beaver pelts from the Company's London auction rooms. Late that night the train stopped for the trip's most unusual welcome at Brandon, Manitoba, where 10,000 children in a floodlit natural amphitheatre cheered and sang. The King and Queen stepped into the crowd to be hugged and kissed (he had been backslapped at Ottawa), as well as cheered. Tears were...
...Winnipeg stretches the depressed, marketless wheat country, where once-prosperous farmers have replaced their Fords and Buicks with "Bennett buggies."* Their Majesties got into close touch with the prairies by climbing off and running and walking a mile down the right of way outside of Broadview, Saskatchewan, their train following at a respectful distance...
...Country. Leaving the wheatlands for the cow country, the royal train stopped briefly next morning at Medicine Hat, Alberta, where the Queen became so interested in a girl band from Big Sandy, Montana, 350 miles away, that the King was obliged to remind her that the train was waiting. At Calgary 200,000 Canadians and U. S. citizens up for a good time gave the royal couple a rousing western welcome. Two thousand Blackfeet, Sarcees, Piegans and Stonys whooped and hollered in their most intimidating manner while their chiefs conferred on George VI a new title: "Great Chief Albino...
That evening the royal train pulled into Banff, in time for the King and Queen to see the sun set behind the great purple mountains. Half an hour after arriving at the Banff Springs Hotel, opened especially for the royal visit, they left their suite for a walk by the falls of the Bow River. One of the Royal Canadian Police stationed every 50 yards around the hotel began to trail them watchfully. The King halted and smiled. "Please don't follow us," he said, "we are quite all right...
Next day, snaking through the grandest mountain scenery in North America, the King and Queen enjoyed another royal prerogative, that of riding in the cab of the lead locomotive of the train's snorting "triple-header." Ahead lay three days of full-dress dignity in Vancouver and Victoria, before the swing back to the East for their visit...