Manitoba Welcomes the Queen for Its 100 Year Anniversary of Confederation with Canada
July 15, 1970 was the celebrated event when Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh , rode a carriage from the CNR (Canadian National Railways) station in Winnipeg down wide Broadway Street. In the following carriages were both Prince Anne and Prince Charles. Their eventual destination winding straight down Broadway Street was the Manitoba Provincial Legislative Building. At the Legislative Building , underneath the famous Manitoba Golden Boy, the Queen was to be in attendance to make a speech commemorating the very date on which Manitoba entered the Confederation of Canada , then part of the “British Empire”.
Along that very route it was estimated that some 100,000 people ( fully 1/10 or 10 % of the population of the whole far flung province of Manitoba), to cheer on the Royal Family. Arriving on the grounds of the Provincial “Lege”, the party received a full 21 gun salute, where the Queen and her entourage were greeted yet fully another 15,000 persons.
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