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...Washington, would become a federal district. Many Ottawans, who think their annual grant of $100,000 from the Federal Government is much too small, hope so too. The city owes its existence to the Duke of Wellington, who in 1826 sent Royal Engineer Colonel John By to build the Rideau Canal through to Lake Ontario, lest Americans close the St. Lawrence. Queen Victoria chose the resulting settlement as Canada's capital, after rioting Tories had burned the Parliament Buildings in nearby Montreal...
...streets milled the crowds of a holiday eve: men & women in khaki and blue, red-coated Mounties. Everywhere bands tested their brass throats; the crowds sang marching songs. Across the Ottawa River, in the little manufacturing city of Hull, the drab factories were decked in bunting. And out at Rideau Hall, where the Governor General of Canada lives, workmen raced their mowing machines across the wide lawns...
...order that Canadians may have a tangible reminder of the Crown, the titular head of their Government is the King's representative, the Governor General. Last year, when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited Canada, they arranged that the next occupants of Rideau Hall, the Governor General's mansion, should be someone who could tighten the allegiance to the Crown-preferably Royalty. After the death of popular Baron Tweedsmuir, the Duke of Devonshire turned down the job. Last April it was given to Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, Earl of Athlone and Viscount Trematon...
Princess Louise, widow of the Duke of Argyll married that Scottish peer when he was Marquis of Lome, accompanied him to Canada when he was made Governor-General of this Dominion, and presided graciously over Rideau Hall at Ottawa for some years...
...Governor General by postponing it to Nov. 2. The given reason for this delay was to allow time for William Lyon Mackenzie King, the Liberal victor in Canada's general election (TIME, Oct. 21), to be sworn in as Premier before the distinguished author arrives to occupy viceregal Rideau Hall...