Queen's visit to Canada confirmed for 2010

[CougarKing]

This will be after the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics though.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090712/national/queen_visit2010

Queen's visit to Canada confirmed for mid-2010

1 hour, 47 minutes ago

By The Canadian Press


OTTAWA - The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are set to visit Canada next summer.


Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean confirmed the mid-2010 visit in a statement Sunday.


But details on where the Queen and Prince Philip would stop, the length of their trip and the exact arrival date are still up in the air.


Prime Minister Stephen Harper had invited the Queen during a visit to Buckingham Palace last April.


"It is always a high honour to host a royal visit," Harper said in a statement.


"This visit by The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh will be a celebration of our shared heritage and values which are enduring sources of pride for millions of Canadians."


These will be the first major visits of the Royal Family to Canada since the Conservatives took office.


The Queen last visited Canada in 2005, touring Saskatchewan and Alberta for their centennial years.


She paid a much longer, cross-country visit to Canada in 2002 to mark her golden jubilee.


Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the duchess of Cornwall, are scheduled to visit Newfoundland and Labrador, Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia and the National Capital Region this November.

 

[Strike]

So, that's the Olympics, the G8 and now the Royal visit.  And somewhere in there is high readiness training for a deployment.  Wow.  This is going to be a fun year.  I think I picked a good time to get posted out of an HQ and OT to a purple trade.  ;D

 

[CougarKing]

An update with more details on the upcoming visit next summer:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2009/11/27/ottawa-queen-visit-canada.html

The Queen and Prince Philip will visit Canada next summer. The royal couple will visit from June 28 to July 6 and will stop in Nova Scotia, Ontario and Manitoba, spending Canada Day in Ottawa, the Governor General's office confirmed Friday.
The Department of Canadian Heritage is expected to issue a detailed itinerary at a later date.
It will be the Queen's 22nd official visit to Canada.
She first came in 1957, when she opened a session of Parliament. Her most recent visit was in May 2005, when she toured the western provinces.
The announcement of next summer's visit came after she met Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the Commonwealth summit in Trinidad and Tobago on Friday.
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