Roughing It Royally
Royal tours Of Canada are normally associated with official receptions, visits to public institutions, speeches, state balls, formal luncheons and fancy banquets. Besides such formalities, the itinerary usually offers the royal visitor an opportunity to participate in field sports and other diversions for pleasure and recreation. The early royal tours of our country--those of 1860, 1901 and 1919--were no exception as the inclusion of hunting, fishing and fast-paced rafting allowed royal visitors a chance to escape from their hectic public duties.
In 1860, when the youthful Albert Edward, Prince of Wales--later Edward VII--toured what, was then known as British North America, he engaged in a number of recreational pursuits. While in Montreal to open the Victor...