City of London, Ontaro, CanadaThe pioneer period and the London of to-day . ndon has from the beginning been aloyal city and more or less connected withroyalty. The name first intended for it,Georgiana, was in honor of the reigning mon-arch. Here the Queens birthday was firstcelebrated as a holiday, in 1850, by resolutionof the Council, and in a London cemetery of the Volunteer Rifles, Highlanders andCavalry. The city was magnificently dec-orated. Population and wealth considered,we have had no such demonstration a handsome pavilion erected near thestation, the Prince and party were r
City of London, Ontaro, CanadaThe pioneer period and the London of to-day . ndon has from the beginning been aloyal city and more or less connected withroyalty. The name first intended for it,Georgiana, was in honor of the reigning mon-arch. Here the Queens birthday was firstcelebrated as a holiday, in 1850, by resolutionof the Council, and in a London cemetery of the Volunteer Rifles, Highlanders andCavalry. The city was magnificently dec-orated. Population and wealth considered,we have had no such demonstration a handsome pavilion erected near thestation, the Prince and party were receivedby the mayor, parliamentary representatives,councillors and citizens committee. The ad-dress of welcome did not differ essentiallyfrom the ordinai-y run of such affairs, butit contained one sentence worthy of preser-vation : The fact that at most it is onlyforty years since, in the locality where younow stand, none but the red Indian dozedunder the shade of the primeval forest, willsufficiently explain to Your Royal Highnesswhy we can conduct you to no magnificent. VIEW, LOOKlXli SOUTH-WEST FKOM COlKT HOUSE, Westminster Bridge, Toll Gate, Judge ^\ilsons and Judge Gi\ens Residences. FOXi 1897 VIEW, SEE OPPOSITE PAGE. there lies buried a daughter of George was the wife of an officer of a Britishregiment stationed here, and was buried inSt. Pauls cemetery, the remains afterwardsbeing removed to Mount Pleasant, where amodest headstone records the facts. Threetimes have members of the royal familyvisited London. The first was in 1860, whenthe Prince of Wales came amongst us. Thedemonstration on that occasion was said byone who accompanied the Prince to have beensuperior to anything elsewhere in Canada,where his visit was one continual ovation. ThePrince and party arrived on the afternoon ofSeptember 12. The Volunteer Artillery fireda salute, and a guard of honor was made up buildings, to no sacred historic monuments,such as those which are familiar to your
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