The Archive · 1939

Crowds Greet King, Queen

Throngs Greet Their Majesties on Point of Departure from Canada; U.S, Precautions Taken

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 smile: ''m 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 manage-blent agreed not to try to reopen the Works UnUl Their Majesties had left.

Americans from the Middle-West are now pouring into Windsor, On-orlo, 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 ter {0 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,

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