CANADA TO CELEBATE A JUBILEE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 20 May 1927, Page 2

CANADA TO CELEBATE A JUBILEE

A GREAT PEOGRAMME

Plans for the nation-wide celebration cf the Dominion of Canada's 60th birthday- are maturing rapidly i Friday, Ist July, this year should be the most spectacular Dominion Day in the history of Confederation. By day there will be historic pageants, field, days, and military review's. By night there' will be fireworks, torchlight processions, and 10,000 beacon fires stretching from Cape Breton Island to Vancouver Island. At noon on Dominion Day a salute cf guns will be fired from Parliament Hill, Ottawa, that will echo across the country in salutes fired in the greater cities of the Dominion. The Governments of Great Britain and of the other Dominions will be represented in Canada, and invitations have been sent to the United States and to the Republics of South America to have senior members of their Governments present. There will be a Cana-dian-American feature of the day in the opening of the new Peace Bridge between Buffalo, New York, and Port Erie, Ontario. The Canadian end of this span across the Niagara River is the' scene of the last armed conflict between British and United States troops, 113 years ago. The Diamond Jubilee celebration this sunpner is the first great national event of the kind since the tercentenary cf 1908 was held at Quebec to commemorate the founding of that city 300 years before.

•The Premier, Mr Mackenzie King, has personally taken the initiative in creating the national organisation of the Dominion Day festivities'. lie guided the Bill to incorporate the National Committee through the House of Commons recently, and at the suggestion of farmer-members extended the membership to several Labour and agricultural organisations. This Bill provides for £50,000 to meet the committee's expenses.