Her Majesty the Queen’s tour of Canada continued on this date in 1970. She was at the Manitoba Legislature and officially welcomed there by NDP Premier Ed Schreyer. Little could he have known that nine-years later he would be appointed the Queen’s representative to Canada as Governor General. You can read the Premier’s welcoming remarks to Her Majesty below.
Premier Schreyer: Nineteen-seventy is an exciting year for Manitoba. We are grateful that our Queen and the Royal Family have been able to share some of it with us. Your presence attests the vitality of our traditions, and the permanence of our institutions. You have seen our province, from the far northern port of Churchill to the South. You have seen our people, our industry, our fun, and we hope that you have come to share our pride. Today I have tried to tell you quickly and symbolically something of this year's significance to us, but I am sure your travels among us have shown you more than I could tell. Today we end one century then, and start a second. With God's help we will continue as well as we have begun· with determination, imagination and energy, in gentleness, and in prosperity.
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.