I48 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 
     
    
   
   
    
     of the Island with Canada was completed. The action of the 
     
     Government having been transmitted to England, was received 
     
     there with satisfaction. At the assembling of Parliament on the 
     
     above occasion, a military order had been given and acted upon 
     
     reducing the number of the guard of honor to 50 rank and 
     
     file, 1 sergeant, I subaltern and a captain; while but I salute 
     
     was fired by the artillery; and again, on Queen’s birthday, a 
     
     royal salute from the 32 pounders constituted the sole military 
     
     display in relation thereto; such order being in accordance with 
     
     the Rules and Regulations of the Dominion service. 
     
    
   
   
    
     At an early hour on the first of july, called Dominion Day, 
     
     the city and the shipping in the harbor became decked with 
     
     bunting, and at 12 o’clock, the Dominion flag was run up at 
     
     the Colonial Building, Post OFfice, and at Fort Edward. Here 
     
     a salute of 21 guns and afeu-a’e-joie were fired by the volun- 
     
     teers, the band playing the National Anthem; while the 
     
     churches and city bells rang out a lively peal, at the same 
     
     time the Sherifi‘, William R. Watson, Esq., ascended the balcony 
     
     of the Colonial Building and read therefrom the Union Procla- 
     
     mation; wherein it was set forth that Prince Edward Island that 
     
     day was received as another branch ofthe Dominion of Canada. 
     
    
   
   
    
     From the review of the volunteers at Fort Edward, His Honor 
     
     Governor Robinson attended at the Council Chamber, where the 
     
     Judges and Executive Councilors had previously assembled. 
     
     Here the Governor General’s commission appointing William C. 
     
     Robinson, Esq., Governor of this Island, under the Dominion, 
     
     was read, after which the oath was administered to His Honor 
     
     and to the Councilors by the Judges of the Supreme Court. 
     
     And thus as it was known, that Prince Edward Island,—being 
     
     for many years almost unanimously opposed to any change in 
     
     the constitution of the colony,—became a Province of the 
     
     Dominion of Canada, bringing the question to a final solution. 
     
    
   
   
    
     At the hour of noon H. M. S. Spartan, then in port, being 
     
     gaily decorated, also fired a salute of 21 guns. At night the 
     
     Colonial Building and Post Office were illuminated; fireworks 
     
     were set of}; presenting a fine appearance; but the most 
     
     beautiful sight was the illumination of H. M. Ship Spartan, 
     
    
   
   
    
     with her ports and rigging all lit up with many kinds of 
     
     colored lights. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Of the principal conditions on which the Union took place,