Looking back on the Royal tour, what have beef its results The chief result has been upór the Canadian public and mot upon the American. It has given Canada: a new sense of unity. French-speaking Canadians from Quebec, foreign-born Canadians of the Mid-die West, the very English Canadians of British Columbia were united in their feeling towards the King and Queen of Canada. Even those Canadians most distrustful of the Imperial connection had to admit that from the purely narrow viewpoint of the Canadian nation the King and Queen had done a good job and had proved an asset.
This new feeling of the usefulness of the Crown from the purely domestic Canadian point of view cannot altogether be dissociated from the feeling towards the Crown as the symbol of unity among the various nations of the Empire. Some of the "anti-royalist" prejudice formerly felt in the United States, owing to old-fashioned methods of teaching history and the feeling that anything which did not exist in America must ipso facto be undemocratic, had penetrated into Canada. This was swept away at the first view of the King and Queen, and the way was cleared for the realization that the Crown was just as much the symbol of Canadian unity as it was the symbol of the Imperial connection. from the point of view of Canada it was very fortunate that some efforts made in America to make the Royal trip a failure were not successful, for if they had deen a barrier would have existed between the two English speaking nations of the North American continent. The fact that Americans now share their northern neighbour's view of the King and Queen is a new bond between them. Canadians were pleased with the welcome given in Washington and New York, and they were honoured that the King had crossed the border in a sense as "King of Canada" with the Canadian Prime Minisier in attendance and no member of the British Government anywhere in evidence.
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