The Crown in British Columbia

Andrew –

Thank you for this post. I really enjoy keeping up with the ceremonial of the Commonwealth. And, BC is an absolutely outstanding province. As a native Tennessean it is interesting to note that the BC Legislative Buildings are made of Tennessee stone.

Harold

Such a strange boy you are, Cusack. Such cringing behavior before the old oppressor. You should really stop treating your nation so poorly. One so enthralled with tradition and aristocratic virtues might make an American man yet:

http://officer.marines.com/

Ha! The Marines! I may be crazy, but I don’t have the particularly brilliant type of lunacy required to be an officer in the United States Marine Corps. (Perhaps someone at Patum Peperium might).

Anyhow, I fail to see how an appreciation of other places can be interpreted as “treating my country poorly”. It is not a patriot but a bigot who interprets praise of others as denigration of ourselves.

And “old oppressor”? I don’t recall the day when the States were under the wicked Canadian jackboot. I’ll have to dig deep to find those photos of the Governor-General’s Horse Guards parading in triumph down Broadway as part of the Canadian Army of Occupation.

I do admire our British cousins as well, where would American liberty be without the Scots especially. It is good to see the Queen has a man in BC. After all, the way the Liberal Party/Banking interests are going after her, she might very well need refuge soon. Hopefully, the Royal Navy has a more than a rowboat by the time she has to flee. She could always retreat to Balmoral and surround herself with her Highland Regiments-Oh, I forgot they are getting rid of them as well. Plenty, of them left in Canada- for now.

Blast you, Andrew. You always snag the best pics!

P.W., It amazes me to this day that Canada has more Scottish regiments than the Scots. The British should follow our lead and save their historic regiments, even if it means rolling them into the militia and reducing them down to a shell of their former size. When regiments reside only in the regular force, they become dangerously susceptible to reorganization and reorganization again. Much better to have minimal regular Army regiments with oversized battalions, with the vast majority of regiments geographically dispersed as reserve elements which act as feeder units to the regular force. Canada has only three chock-filled regiments in its full-time Land Forces, but has maintained nearly 100 of its Great War and Second World War era regiments safely inside the reserve militia. The man who devised this defence policy way back when deserves much more than a medal, to say the least.

Thank you for this post. As a British Columbian, I was very proud to see our new Lieutenant Governor (pronounced leftenant, btw) wearing the traditional court uniform.

God Save the Queen
God Save British Columbia

I came across this post when I was doing a google search and noticed an error: The Royal Proclamation was read by His Honour’s Private Secretary Herb LeRoy and not the CJ. The Chief Justice of BC was only witnessing the oath, signed the appointment scroll and presented him with the Order of British Columbia.