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...women from holding legislative office was a "completely outmoded relic of medieval civilization." Last week the appointment of Mrs. Norman MacKay Wilson, first woman ever to serve in the Canadian Senate, was announced by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and her appointment officially approved by Governor-General Viscount Willingdon...
...then along Carling Avenue to Richmond Road, left at Bell's Corners to Fallowfield and from Fallowfield home, over a back road to the Prescott Highway, and so to Dow's Lake again, and the finish line. Seven teams jogged along, started by the pistol of His Excellency, Viscount Willingdon. Not long ago the Canadian Government encouraged dog-team races because dog teams were the only freight haulers of the northern wilderness after October, an important factor in territorial expansion. Now tractors are taking their place, so the government sanctions dog-team races for another reason? because it is great...
...MacDonald and Mr. King shook hands as absolute equals, colleagues under the Crown. Loud pealed the carillon in the great Gothic peace tower of Canada's Parliament House. Smartly Scot MacDonald was driven to be received by the personal representative of George V in Canada, vice-regal Viscount Willingdon (salary $50,000*). After luncheon chubby, jovial astute Mr. King suggested a motor ride, 25 miles out into the Gatineau hills to "Kingsmere," his country home. There, as with President Hoover beside the rushing Rapidan, Mr. MacDonald found an open hearth, a crackling log fire. Canadians hoped that during...
...Majesty's Governor General, slender, serene, punctilious Viscount Willingdon, began last week to enjoy a brief spring holiday on the Pacific coast of Canada, some 2,200 miles from Ottawa, his Capitol...
Traveling by special train, yet with studied informality, Lord and Lady Willingdon arranged to receive, when they reached Vancouver last week, merely a simple greeting from Mayor Louis Taylor instead of an expensive formal welcome. Further to spare Vancouver all expense, they slept each night aboard their train...