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TOWN SHOWS ITS PLEASURE AT THE HONOR BY DECORATIONS, AND ‘WELCOME GIVEN. ADDRESS AT STATION BY ACTING MAYOR AND COUNCIL. VISIT TO THE RIVER, MINES, ETC, LUNCHEON AT HOLLINGER LODGE. His Excellency, the Duke of Devon shire, Governor-General of Canada, and party, visited Timmins this morn ing on their tour of the great North Land. The Town appreciated the honor of a visit from the first of Ca nada’s Governor-Generals to tour the Porcupine district, and many were the evidences of the loyalty and pleasure of the people. Flags flying, bunting waving, cheering. On the arrival of the vice-regal party an address of welcome from the Mayor and Council was read by Dr. H. H. Moore, Acting Mayor, on be half of the Town. The address was printed in colors on fine linen-finish bond paper, with the town's heraldic device in gold on the cover, the work being done at the office of The Ad vance, the Gold Camp's only weekly newspaper. The address briefly re viewed the early struggles of the first settlers and emphasized the loyalty of the people to the British Crown and Empire, as well as extending a sincere cordial welcome to Their Ex cellencies. In a brief ,but eloquent reply His Excellency expressed his appreciation of the address and of the welcome. He spoke of the wonderful develop ment of the country, the part played by the pioneers in the advance of Empire, and the noble response of this part of the North Land to the call of King and Country and the Right. On behalf of the King whom he repre sented in this Dominion he thanked the people for their expressions of loyalty and for the devotion proven by their response to the Great Call. “The times through which we are passing,’’ he said, ‘‘are the most difficult that we have had to face, not only for this part of the Dominion, but for the whole Empire, but I may say that no matter how difficult they may be, we are determined to carry ‘this war to a victorious conclusion, and with the same good spirit of unity and co-operation of effort we shall reach ‘a peace that will save fu ture generations from the horrors through which we are passing.’’ He spoke of the value of production, and to this coupled the thought that future generations would be proud of the re cord of the people here in this respect. He concluded by again expressing on behalf of himself and the Duchess ap preciation for the reception accorded. From the station six motors cars took the vice-regal party and repre sentatives of the Town Council, the Mines and the Press on the trip through the district. The first car carried His Excellency the Duke of Devonshire, Her Excellency the Duch ess of Devonshire, the Aide-de-camp to Their Excellencies, and Dr. H. H. Moore, Acting Mayor in the absence of Mayor J.P. McLaughlin. Car No. 2:—Lady Maude, Lieut.-Col. Hender sson, and Mr. W. M. Summerhayes. Car 3:—Lady Dorothy, Lady Rachel, Aide-de-camp, and Mr. A. R. Globe, Town Councillor. Car 4:—Lord Ca vendish; Mr. Chas Pierce and Mr. A. Brazeau, Town Councillors. Car 5:— Mr. J. L. Englehart, Chairman of the T. N. O. Commission; Lieut.-Col. Henderson's Son; Dr. J. A. McInnis, Town Councillor, Car 6.—Mr. Park inson; Mr. C. G. Williams, Town Coun cillor; Mr. J. R. Timmins, Director of Hollinger Gold Mines, Ltd.; and Mr. G. A. Macdonald, editor of The Ad vance. The party went down Third Ave. to the Jeffries’ farm and along the river front en route again to the town. This part of the trip showed what can be done in this district in the way of agriculture, and many interesting details of historic import were also suggested to the visitors by the way. Returning by way of Third Avenue and Pine street, the Public and Sepa rate Schools were passed, and the school children gave appropriate creet ing. The public school children all carried flags, and later were joined by classes from the Separate School. His Excellency stopped and made a brief but very appropriate address to the children. Then the children cheered and cheered and waved their flags, putting a special touch of en thusiasm into their ‘‘three cheers and tiger.’’ As the party went on its way to the Porcupine Crown, a group of twenty men at work on some water main ex tension at the top of the hill lined the road and gave rousing cheers. Hach man had the flag of the land of his fathers,—Italy,—and also the flag of his own and his children’s land,— Canada. At the Porcupine Crown Mine the party found much of interest at the Refinery. Returning to the Hollinger the party entered the southh gate and inspected the original out crop. The Refinery and Mill, etc, were visited, but the chief interest of all the visitors was a trip under ground. All showed a bright interest in every phase of mine work, and ap peared delighted with every phase of the visit. At 12:00 noon the party were en tertained at luncheon at the Hollinger Lodge, Mr.Timmins and Mrs. Robbins being the host and hostess. In ad dition to the vice-regal party and the Members of the Town Council, there were present at the dainty luncheon, Mrs. H. H. Moore, Mrs. Robbins, Mrs. Globe, Mr. Summerhayes, Mr. Tim mins and Mr. Englehart. The cater ing for the occasion was done by Messrs. Coles and staff of Toronto. After luncheon, the vice-regal party left for Schumacher to entrain for Iroquois Falls, where the big Paper Mill and Model Town will be inspect ted.
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Timmins Porcupine Advance
Timmins, Ontario, CA
Wed, Sep 26, 1917
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