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Title: The web of empire : a diary of the imperial tour of their Royal Highnesses the Duke & Duchess of Cornwall & York in 1901
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: W. P. Topley (Photographer) Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, 1841-1919 Hall, Sydney Prior, 1842-1922, ill Martino, Eduardo de, d. 1912
Subjects: George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936 Mary, Queen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain, 1867-1953
Publisher: London, New York : Macmillan and company, limited
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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greatly interested, he adds, in our journey ugh this boundless land, rich and fertile in its soil, great in its possibility of development; and we look forward to the time when it will be the h f a great, prosperous, and loyal people. Contrasting the free, healthy, and useful life which is enjoyed in this country with the narrow and, alas! too often unwhole- •e existence of the thousands in our great cities at home, one cannot help wishing that the prospects here offered were more widely known and more freely taken WQW-WOI VlAKlVn TA3HG ajiT .YKAOJAD rtb3WAIK22 qo lUQXiJ A plunge throionly thbut me lets of Russia. ilgary, nearly 500 miles nearer the The route lies over the level prairie, ch the tracks of the now extinct herds of buffalo still visible. At the station of Mle characteristic specimr1 great as little Union Jacks a ig the id The Maple Leaf. We are 1700 feet above sea and we er ground. ■her.—At e at tly very flourish-of the District of Alberta, ipal stations of the North-W
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Image: The Great Indian Pow-wow, a group of Squaws xi CANADA : WESTWARD JOURNEY 389 Mounted Police. Fifteen years ago it was an insignificant village ; now it has nearly 6000 inhabitants, who give their Royal Highnesses a very cordial reception. The proceedings begin with an inspection of the Mounted Police on the racecourse. They are a splendid body of men, who have done wonders in establishing law and order in those vast, lately reclaimed territories, and who have made themselves at once respected and extremely popular among all classes of the population. Altogether they are considerably less than 1000 in number, and in ordinary times they are scattered in small detachments over an enormous extent of country, so that they have rarely an opportunity of being drilled in a large body. This does not prevent them from trotting and galloping past today in a style that no regular cavalry need be ashamed of. Many of them volunteered for South Africa, and to those of them who have returned the Duke presents war medals. Thereafter their Royal Highnesses d

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