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The Overseas Education LeagueCompetition:
"Canadian and Newfoundland Students and the Coronation
Provision was made to have 40 students each from Ontario and Quebec; 14 each from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba; 8 from Newfoundland and 4 from Prince Edward Island.
No school was allowed more than one place; and it was suggested that this placement be "selected by a vote of the entire student body, in collaboration with the principal and staff." The school, if possible, was urged to pay the travel costs.
The trips were segregated: girls were scheduled to travel on the Duchess of Atholl, boys on the Montcalm.
Instructions and Permissions:"I can conceive of no worse predicament than anticipating meeting our Monarch and finding that the apparel which you have so carefully arranged for the occasion is missing and the prospect of restitution gone."
There was no shortage of specific instruction given to the students chosen to go; and specific written permissions required for any extracurricular activity. The letter from 'Wartman, Wartman, Wartman & Wartman' must have been welcome comic relief.
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