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It was on this date in 1939 that saw His Majesty King George VI and Queen Elizabeth arrive in Quebec City to start their cross-country tour of Canada. It marked the first time Canada’s reigning monarch had visited our country.
“It is now some 46 years since I first came to this country with the King, in those anxious days shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War,” the Queen Mother recalled decades later while on another trip to Canada. “I shall always look back upon that visit with feelings of affection and happiness. I think I lost my heart to Canada and Canadians, and my feelings have not changed with the passage of time.
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