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King Charles III and Queen Camilla are set to visit Canada on short two day visit May 26-27, 2025. This is a very short visit but the first by his majesty since his coronoation. In the past, a royal visit would be a good excuse for a commemorative pencil. Here are a few pencils marking previous royal visits. 1939 1939 Royal Visit Venus Pencil
1951  1959 Seventy three years ago today, Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, undertook a coast-to-coast tour of Canada. The visit took started on Oct. 8, 1951 when they landed in Quebec and ended on Nov. 12, 1951 when they departed from Newfoundland. The visit was a very popular with the Canadian public and all sorts of souveniers of this visit were created. There were stamps, dinnerware, magazines, and of course pencils. Below is a commemorative pencil of the event made by Dixon Pencil Company in Newmarket, Ontario.    The journey started in Quebec and went all across the country. (There was also a side trip to Washington, D.C.) They travelled by train, plane, car and ship and covered an estimated 15,000 miles.  https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/throwback-thursday-1951-royal-tour-of-canada/ I highly recommend the National Film Board of Canada documentary titled Royal Journey. The film documents the five-week visit of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh to Canada and the United States in the fall of 1951.
https://www.nfb.ca/film/royal_journey/ |
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