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In Pictures: Queen Elizabeth II visits the Maritimes

Throughout her 70-year reign, Queen Elizabeth II visited the Maritimes on numerous occasions, participating in local events and touring different communities in all three provinces.

Princess Elizabeth, as she was known at this time, made her first visit to the Maritimes in 1951.

She made her final visit to the region in the summer of 2010, as part of a nine-day Canadian tour.

Queen Elizabeth II visited Canada more than any other Commonwealth country.

She died Thursday at the age of 96.

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Queen Elizabeth, Canada's head of state , always draws crowds when she visits Canada. Since her accession to the Throne in 1952, Queen Elizabeth has made 22 official Royal visits to Canada, usually accompanied by her husband Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh , and sometimes by her children Prince Charles , Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward. Queen Elizabeth has visited every province and territory in Canada.

2010 Royal Visit

Date: June 28 to July 6, 2010 Accompanied by Prince Philip The 2010 Royal Visit included celebrations in Halifax, Nova Scotia to mark the centennial of the founding of the Royal Canadian Navy, Canada Day celebrations on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and a dedication of the cornerstone for the Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

2005 Royal Visit

Date: May 17 to 25, 2005 Accompanied by Prince Philip Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip attended events in Saskatchewan and Alberta to celebrate the centennial of the entry of Saskatchewan and Alberta into Confederation.

2002 Royal Visit

Date: October 4 to 15, 2002 Accompanied by Prince Philip The 2002 Royal Visit to Canada was in celebration of the Queen's Golden Jubilee. The Royal couple visited Iqaluit, Nunavut; Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia; Winnipeg, Manitoba; Toronto, Oakville, Hamilton and Ottawa, Ontario; Fredericton, Sussex, and Moncton, New Brunswick.

1997 Royal Visit

Date: June 23 to July 2, 1997 Accompanied by Prince Philip The 1997 Royal Visit marked the 500th anniversary of John Cabot's arrival in what is now Canada. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visited St. John's and Bonavista, Newfoundland; NorthWest River, Shetshatshiu, Happy Valley and Goose Bay, Labrador, They also visited London, Ontario and viewed the floods in Manitoba.

1994 Royal Visit

Date: August 13 to 22, 1994 Accompanied by Prince Philip Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip toured Halifax, Sydney, the Fortress of Louisbourg, and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; attended the Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia; and visited Yellowknife , Rankin Inlet and Iqaluit (then part of the Northwest Territories).

1992 Royal Visit

Date: June 30 to July 2, 1992 Queen Elizabeth visited Ottawa, Canada's capital, marking the 125th anniversary of Canadian Confederation and the 40th anniversary of her accession to the Throne.

1990 Royal Visit

Date: June 27 to July 1, 1990 Queen Elizabeth visited Calgary and Red Deer, Alberta, and then joined the celebrations for Canada Day in Ottawa, Canada's capital.

1987 Royal Visit

Date: October 9 to 24, 1987 Accompanied by Prince Philip On the 1987 Royal Visit, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip toured Vancouver, Victoria and Esquimalt, British Columbia; Regina, Saskatoon, Yorkton, Canora, Veregin, Kamsack and Kindersley, Saskatchewan; and Sillery, Cap Tourmente, Rivière-du-Loup and La Pocatière, Quebec.

1984 Royal Visit

Date: September 24 to October 7, 1984 Accompanied by Prince Philip for all parts of the visit except Manitoba Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip toured New Brunswick and Ontario to participate in events marking the bicentennials of those two provinces. Queen Elizabeth also visited Manitoba.

1983 Royal Visit

Date: March 8 to 11, 1983 Accompanied by Prince Philip At the end of a tour of the U.S. West Coast, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visited Victoria, Vancouver, Nanaimo, Vernon, Kamloops and New Westminster, British Columbia.

1982 Royal Visit

Date: April 15 to 19, 1982 Accompanied by Prince Philip This Royal Visit was to Ottawa, Canada's capital, for the Proclamation of the Constitution Act, 1982.

1978 Royal Visit

Date: July 26 to August 6, 1978 Accompanied by Prince Philip, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward Toured Newfoundland, Saskatchewan and Alberta, attending the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta.

1977 Royal Visit

Date: October 14 to 19, 1977 Accompanied by Prince Philip This Royal Visit was to Ottawa, Canada's capital, in celebration of the Queen's Silver Jubilee Year.

1976 Royal Visit

Date: June 28 to July 6, 1976 Accompanied by Prince Philip, Prince Charles, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward The Royal family visited Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and then Montreal, Quebec for the 1976 Olympics. Princess Anne was a member of the British equestrian team competing in the Olympics in Montreal.

1973 Royal Visit (2)

Date: July 31 to August 4, 1973 Accompanied by Prince Philip Queen Elizabeth was in Ottawa, Canada's capital, for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. Prince Philip had his own program of events.

1973 Royal Visit (1)

Date: June 25 to July 5, 1973 Accompanied by Prince Philip Queen Elizabeth's first visit to Canada in 1973 included an extended tour of Ontario, including events to mark the 300th anniversary of Kingston. The Royal couple spent time in Prince Edward Island marking the centennial of PEI's entry into Canadian Confederation, and they went on to Regina, Saskatchewan, and Calgary, Alberta to participate in events marking the RCMP centennial.

1971 Royal Visit

Date: May 3 to May 12, 1971 Accompanied by Princess Anne Queen Elizabeth and Princess Anne marked the centennial of British Columbia's entry into Canadian Confederation by visiting Victoria, Vancouver, Tofino, Kelowna, Vernon, Penticton, William Lake and Comox, B.C.

1970 Royal Visit

Date: July 5 to 15, 1970 Accompanied by Prince Charles and Princess Anne The 1970 Royal Visit to Canada included a tour of Manitoba to celebrate the centennial of Manitoba's entry into Canadian Confederation. The Royal Family also visited the Northwest Territories to mark its centennial.

1967 Royal Visit

Date: June 29 to July 5, 1967 Accompanied by Prince Philip Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip were in Ottawa, Canada's capital, to celebrate Canada's centennial. They also went to Montreal, Quebec to attend Expo '67.

1964 Royal Visit

Date: October 5 to 13, 1964 Accompanied by Prince Philip Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip Visited Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Quebec City, Quebec and Ottawa, Ontario to attend the commemoration of the three major conferences that led up to Canadian Confederation in 1867.

1959 Royal Visit

Date: June 18 to August 1, 1959 Accompanied by Prince Philip This was Queen Elizabeth's first major tour of Canada. She officially opened the St. Lawrence Seaway and visited all Canadian provinces and territories over the span of six weeks.

1957 Royal Visit

Date: October 12 to 16, 1957 Accompanied by Prince Philip On her first official visit to Canada as Queen, Queen Elizabeth spent four days in Ottawa, Canada's capital, and officially opened the first session of the 23rd Parliament of Canada.

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Before she was Queen: Remembering Elizabeth’s 1951 visit to campus

Matt Reeder - September 8, 2022

An extra day off from classes during the fall term likely sounds appealing to many busy university students — and that's what Dal pupils received in the fall of 1951 thanks to a special regal visitor.

Just months before she was crowned Queen Elizabeth II following the death of her father, King George VI, Princess Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Philip, dropped by Dalhousie's campus on November 8 as part of their 33-day cross-Canada tour that year.

The university cancelled all classes to mark the occasion.

How many hands Her Royal Highness shook during the visit remains unclear, but that of then-Dalhousie President Alexander Enoch Kerr was most certainly among the first. As was that of Lieutenant-Colonel K. C. Laurie, then chair of Dalhousie's Board of Governors. Both men were on hand to welcome the princess to campus, along with naval cadets and officers in training clad in uniform.

On Thursday (Sept. 8), more than 70 years after the rainy-day visit to Dal, Britain's longest-serving monarch passed away at the age of 96 .

"I am saddened to learn of the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. We have lowered Dalhousie’s flags in her honour ," said Dal President and Vice-Chancellor Deep Saini. 

While the Royal Couple's visit to Dal lasted a mere five minutes, large crowds turned out in the wet weather to greet them with cheers. As the Dalhousie Gazette reported in the following morning's edition, "Heavy rain did not make any difference to the size of the crowds. From the University gates on University Avenue to the gates on South Street, students and others were lined up three and four deep . . . to catch a glimpse of the Prince and Princess."

Below, we share some archival images of the visit, including photographs of the princess signing the Dal guest book in the Macdonald Memorial Library.

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Chair Laurie and President Kerr, right, greet Princess Elizabeth.

A rainy walk on campus.

Signing Dal's official guest book.

President Kerr, far left, and Chair Laurie, far right, with the Royals.

A brief, but special, encounter concludes.

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Princess elizabeth in halifax, 1951 .

Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia on this day in 1951, during their extensive Tour of Canada, different phases of which we have been individually covering over the past few weeks. Following a busy Summer , with the  Opening of the Festival of Britain , the  Danish State Visit , the  Norwegian State Visit , the Tour of Canada was the first sign of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke, who had  given up his Naval Career ,  becoming full-time working Royals  in the last few months of King George VI’s life, ahead of her Accession to the Throne. 

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The Duke of Edinburgh first visited Nova Scotia on an official basis when he accompanied the then Princess Elizabeth in 1951 on a tour that took them to every province in Canada. They were in Nova Scotia from 7 to 10 November 1951. While in Nova Scotia, they stayed at Government House and attended a number of events including a receptions at Province House, Halifax City Hall, dinners at the Lord Nelson Hotel and the Nova Scotian Hotel and visits to the School for the Deaf, Camp Hill Hospital and Dalhousie University.

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#royal #flashback "going along hall at nova scotian hotel to state dinner given by province of nova scotia. princess elizabeth, premier angus l. macdonald, mrs. macdonald, mrs. r.h. winters, and the duke of edinburgh. canada. 08 november 1951 (nova scotia bureau of information) pic.twitter.com/wtvjolbeup — mace (@royalevision) november 12, 2020.

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Princess Elizabeth (wearing the Nizam of Hyderabad Tiara , Nizam of Hyderabad Necklace , and the Order of the Garter ) and the Duke were guests of honour at the Dinner hosted by the Premier and Government of Nova Scotia at the Nova Scotian Hotel in Halifax, which was followed by a Reception at the Lord Nelson Hotel.

#royal #flashback "At Sydney, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip say farewell to Nova Scotia. HMC cruiser Ontario in the background. Canada. 10 November 1951 (Nova Scotia Archives) pic.twitter.com/amQSIR4j9P — Mace (@RoyaleVision) November 12, 2020

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Being from Halifax, I find these photos fascinating on many levels! By the way, it’s a damp day here today, but not as wet as it appears to have been for Her Majesty and His Royal Highness.

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'Shining, strong and calm': Halifax Public Gardens ceremony honours Queen Elizabeth

Ceremony to unveil bench and plant tree was scheduled before queen's death.

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A new bench and tree in the Halifax Public Gardens are commemorating Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee.

Dozens gathered at the event Saturday morning organized by the local branch of the Monarchist League of Canada and the Friends of the Public Gardens.

The Platinum Jubilee celebrated Queen Elizabeth's 70th anniversary on the throne. Celebrations were held around the world in 2022.

The Halifax ceremony was scheduled before the Queen's death on Thursday. She was 96.

The initiative was inspired by the "Plant a Tree for the Jubilee" initiative in the United Kingdom.

"There is definitely some sad here today," Carole Thompson with the Monarchist League of Canada said to the crowd.

Thompson said when work started on the event last December the hope was it would be "a good, happy, joyous celebration of an incredible milestone in the reign of a beloved monarch."

Several people attended the event for the opportunity to show their respect to the late sovereign.

"She's probably one of the most confident women I've ever read about or heard about," said Lucine Toomey, who described herself as "a bit of a monarchist," but more a fan of the queen.

"She was a very beautiful lady. To me, she was like quiet steel. She was shining, strong and calm," Toomey told CBC News.

Toomey had on a fascinator at the event that she said she first wore when Prince Charles visited the Public Gardens in 2014.

"He stopped and shook hands with me," she said. "I'm sure part of the reason he did was that I had the fascinator on."

The bench and the planting site of the tree are both near the Queen Elizabeth II Walkway that opened in 2018. A second tree will be planted at the northwest corner of the Halifax Commons.

The bench is on the Grande Alleé, close to both south entrances of the walkway. Two purple fountain weeping beech trees are being planted: one at the Public Gardens and one at the Commons.

"We wanted to place a dedicated garden bench in this beautiful place to bring peace to people and to encourage quiet reflection," Carole Thompson said at the event.

The Victoria Jubilee Fountain in the Public Gardens was restored in 2012 in honour of Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee.

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