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The Queen or others in her family may bestow these honours in person: the Queen, when in the province in 2002, appointed Alberta citizens to the Royal Victorian Order and presented in Alberta, on her official Canadian birthday in 2005, the insignia of the Venerable Order of Saint John to new inductees. [18]
In 1971, the Queen was in British Columbia to celebrate the centennial of the province's entry into Confederation. [116] She toured Alberta and Saskatchewan in July 1973, to celebrate the centennial of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, opening the new RCMP museum building in Regina, [70] and in 1978, to open the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton ...
Alberta was named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta (1848–1939), [21] the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria.Princess Louise was the wife of John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, Governor General of Canada (1878–83).
The Court of Queen's Bench Act sets out the styling convention of the court in Section 2.1. During the reign of a queen, it is known as the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta. On September 8, 2022, upon the accession of King Charles III to the throne, the name changed to the Court of King's Bench of Alberta. [2]
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario David Onley and his wife meet with Queen Elizabeth II before an audience with the monarch at Buckingham Palace, 2008. The monarchy of Canada forms the core of each Canadian provincial jurisdiction's Westminster-style parliamentary democracy, being the foundation of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government in each province.
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (Louisa Caroline Alberta; 18 March 1848 – 3 December 1939) was the sixth child and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. In her public life, she was a strong proponent of the arts and higher education and of the feminist cause.
George VI and Mackenzie King in London, May 1937. While in London, Mackenzie King brought up the monarch taking a royal tour of Canada.. Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir, in an effort to foster Canadian identity, conceived of a royal tour by the country's monarchs; the Dominion Archivist (i.e., official historian) Gustave Lanctot wrote that this "probably grew out of the knowledge that at his ...
The statue of Queen Victoria at the Manitoba Legislative Building and the statue of Queen Elizabeth II at Government House were torn down by a mob on July 1, 2021, in a protest about residential schools. The statue of Elizabeth II was repaired and reinstalled on June 2, 2023, though the statue of Queen Victoria was damaged beyond repair. [3]