enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. 1939 royal tour of Canada - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_royal_tour_of_Canada

   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 ...

3. Festival Express - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_Express

   Festival Express is a 2003 British documentary film about the 1970 train tour of the same name across Canada taken by some of North America's most popular rock bands, including Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Buddy Guy, Flying Burrito Bros, Ian & Sylvia's Great Speckled Bird, Mountain and Delaney & Bonnie & Friends. [2]

4. Royal and viceregal transport in Canada - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_and_viceregal...

   Altogether the royal train, which always followed the viceregal and ministerial train, [21] consisted of ten cars totalling 730 feet (220 m) in length, [22] the remainder being Canada, with an additional five sleeping cabins; Sandringham, the staff dining car; South Africa, housing the secretaries' offices and medical dispensary; and Australia ...

5. History of the Canadian Pacific Railway - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Canadian...

   One highlight of the late 1930s, both for the railway and for Canada, was the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth during their 1939 royal tour of Canada, the first time that the reigning monarch had visited the country. The CPR and the CNR shared the honours of pulling the royal train across the country, with the CPR undertaking the ...

6. Rocky Mountaineer - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountaineer

   It was designed as an all-sightseeing train pulled by the retired steam locomotive CNR 6060, a Bullet Nose Betty-class locomotive in the Canadian Rockies. Originally, it began as a once-weekly Via Rail Canada daytime service between Vancouver, Calgary, and Jasper. The first departure was on May 22, 1988, with a special train for the travel ...

7. Royal tours of Canada - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_tours_of_Canada

   The 1939 royal tour was a cross-Canada royal tour by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Although there had been many invitations since 1858 for the reigning monarch to tour Canada, [108] George was the first to do so. (In 1926, Queen Marie of Romania also visited the country. [109]) The tour helped unify the nation by providing a shared ...