PROGRESS OF KING AND QUEEN

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 131, 6 June 1939, Page 9

PROGRESS OF KING AND QUEEN

CHEERING CROWDS

LONG PILGRIMAGES

JBy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)

(Received June 6, 9 a.m.) SIOUX LOOKOUT, June 5

Their Majesties attended Divine service in a little prairie church today shortly after crossing the Assiniboine River, which marks the northern limits of the Assiniboine (Stone) Indians' territory.

The Royal train made an unscheduled stop at the little outpost of Portage-la-Prairie, not far from the ruins of Fort Ellice. an old Hudson Bay. post.

Their Majesties picked their way carefully along a cart-rutted road to the only church in the district, a little weatherboard building where united Methodist and Presbyterian services are held. The service today was entirely private, but while their Majesties sat in the high-backed pews congregations all over Canada listened to sermons based on I Samuel, X, 24:^— "And all the people shouted, and said, God save the King."

In order to make up time, the Royal train subsequently travelled at 70 miles an hour. Their Majesties travelled in three provinces—Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario—during the weekend, and everywhere were cheered by crowds, which is fantastic considering that the population is often three people to the square mile. Settlers from the Hudson Bay area travelled for days on the off-chance of catching a glimpse of their Majesties.

The crowd at Sioux Lookout tonight included children who were brought from the woods in the north by aeroplane. Others came down the river in barges. Hundreds had never seen a train before, let alone Royalty. Jack HammeJl, a pioneer prospector, presented to their Majesties two gold nuggets.