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[To Prime Minister of Canada]

Quebec

I would offer you my warmest thanks for the cordial words
of welcome you have spoken. I recognise that that welcome is given
to me as the personal representative of our beloved King, and it
will be my duty and my pleasure to convey to His Majesty your expressions
of devotion to his Person and his Throne. In this year of
Silver Jubilee the Empire has recognised more than ever before the
supreme value of that great Office which is its principal bond of
union, and the supreme qualities of him who now fills it. I
am proud to have been chosen in this year of years, by the advice
of His Majesty's Canadian Ministers, to represent such a King in such
a kingdom.

You have welcomed not only His Majesty's representative,
but my wife and myself, in words so kind that I find it hard to
make adequate reply. We are looking forward to five years
of duties and also of happiness. For we have come to a land which we
already know and love, a land in which we have many friends, among
whom, Mr. Prime Minister, one of the oldest and most valued is yourself.

A Governor-General, in coming to this Dominion from Britain,
brings a message from one part of the Empire to another. It is a
message of admiration and confidence, admiration for what the people
of Canada have done, and confidence in what they are yet going to do.
The Empire in all its parts has come nobly out of the recent testing
years. We have been ready for discipline and sacrifice, and in a
time of confusion we have kept our heads. Canada has still before