The King, Lord and Lady Tweeds-muir and the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King, listened from a special pavilion. With them were the Canadian Ministers of Justice and Public Works, and three French and four English Justices of the Supreme Court. The Royal Standard floated overhead.
The scene on the rocky promontory overlooking the Ottawa River was a memorable one, Members of Parl ment and other leading personalities, wearing top hats, ranged in a vast semi-circle in front of the rostrum, while immense crowds, from which a forest of periscopes protruded, covered the surrounding grass.
A roar of cheers and applause greeted the action of Their Majesties when they shook hands and talked with masons, dressed in white, near the foundation stone.
The King and Queen lunched with Mr. Mackenzie King at his home at Laurier House. Mrs. Lay, the Prime Minister's sister, acted as hostess, as he is a bachelor.
The only other guests were the Rev. Alexander Ferguson, Minister of the church at Ottawa which Mr. Mackenzie King attends, and Mrs, Ferguson, Reuter,
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