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Governor-General's Train Canada

Nov: 21: 36

My own most precious one

I am writing this among the snowy woods
of the North as we are bumping our way to Winnipeg.
John and Eric will soon be enjoying all the pleasures of
a Retreat from Moscow!

The Toronto Winter Fair was great fun. The
exhibits were a record, and far ahead of Chicago. I
spent yesterday morning going over the exhibits, and
being photographed fondling sheep & cattle. Gordon
Perry's luncheon was a great affair. The British army
team are doing very well & are immensely popular.
It includes my friend Sir Peter Grant Lawson,
& one of the young Fanshawes, who said he was at
Elsfield the other day (Mrs Duncan Marshall, wife
of the Ontario minister of Agriculture, told me she
attended an [Women's] Institute meeting this summer in the
Elsfield Barn). We had tea with the Bruces, who