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From the Kingston
Whig Standard.

The Overseas Education League

Competition:

 

"Canadian and Newfoundland Students and the Coronation
Arrangements are nearing completion whereby approximately 200 Secondary School Students will sail to England on 30 April…all officially selected students will witness the Coronation Procession"

 

From the Kingston
Whig Standard.

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.

 

 

Details of the O.E.L. selection
process and participation
requirements.
1 | 2 | 3
"Youth and the Coronation,"
reprinted from The Times,
19 Dec 1936.
1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Congratulatory letter
from Gananoque's
Member of Parliament.

 


Congratulatory telegram
from the Gananoque
Board of Education.
Appointment card from
Pearl Freeman, Photographer.
Letter from Pearl Freeman,
requesting a portrait sitting for
the Canadian Illustrated Press.

 

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.

 


Baggage instructions.
Baggage insurance. 'If it has lugs, we cover it"
An undoubtedly welcome relief.
Directions upon arrival.

 


 
Parental permission to visit
the Croydon Aerodrome
Parental permission to visit
named family friends.
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