The Archive · 1939

Crowds Greet King, Queen Nearing Niagara Falls

Throngs Greet Their Majesties on Point of Departure from Canada; U.S. Precautions Taken SPECIAL TO THE "N.C.D.N."

Toronto, June 7.

order to enable the Royal Train to be washed, the King and Queen stopped here for 30 minutes yesterday afternoon in the course of their journey to the United States border at Niagara Falls, where they are expected to arrive tonight.

Members of the Toronto and North York Hunt, dressed in;|pink coats, galloped alongside the Royal Train in the wooded meadows just outside the city. Later, as the train halted at one small place, the King entered a platform observation car, whereupon a voice from the crowd cried: "Hiya, King?" to which His Majesty replied, with a broad smil "Tm fine. How are you?"

"When the King and Queen arrived at Kitchener, Ontario, 750 strikers at an important rubber works, anxious that nothing should mar the harmony of the Royal visit, themselves took measures to ensure the maintenance of perfect order, while the management agreed not to try to reopen the works until Their Majesties had left.

Americans from the Middle-West are now pouring into Windsor, On-tano at the rate of 30,000 an hour, and there are likely to be more Americans than Canadians in the city when the King and Queen arrive there, It is officially announced from Ottawa that the United States Minister to Canada, Mr. Daniel Roper, and Mrs. Roper are leaving for the Niagara Falls to pay their respects to Their Majesties as they leave Canada for the United States, Permanent Way Cleared Stratford, Ontario, June 6.

A section of the permanent way over which the Royal train will pass today was torn up when a Canadian National Railway engine was derailed a mile from here.

A gang of men worked for four hours to clear the line.—Reuter.

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