TOURING QUEBEC AND THE MARITIMES '73

the Reveille. After the singing of The National Anthem, the service was concluded at 12.00 o’clock, when the usual Dominion Day salute of twenty-one guns was fired on the citadel. With Milton, we felt:

“Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail

Or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise or blame; nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.”

Wreaths were then placed on the memorial by the fol- lowing: His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, Province of Nova Scotia by the Hon. E. N. Rhodes; City of Halifax, by His Worship Mayor Gastonquay; The Senior Naval Officer; The Senior Military Officer and many societies, etc. The following military and naval units were in attend- ance: Guard of Honour, under the command of Major E. R. Vinee, M.C.; the Royal Canadian Engineers; the Royal Canadian Navy; Princess Louise Fusiliers Band, under Bandmaster Coakley, this being their first appearance in full dress uniforms since before the war; and a Pipers’ Band, under Pipe Major Bell.

An incident in the arrangements, to which attaches a special interest is the fact that the table, on which lay the Book of Remembrance, was covered by the Royal silken standard of Henry the Seventh, presented to the ladies of Halifax by the ladies of Bristol on the occasion of the dedication of the Memorial Tower.

A luncheon at the Lord Nelson Hotel at 1.00 o’clock brought to a close our visit in beautiful Halifax, the oldest British city in Canada. Guests at the luncheon were Sir Robert Borden and Lady Borden, Lieutenant-Governor Tory, Mayor Gastonquay, Rev. Hamilton Wigle and Mrs. Wigle and Rev. John Mutch.

Dr. Crews, chairman for the occasion, said: “One of