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“ITwas a Triumph indeed, that procession from Buckingham Palace to the Cathedral of St. Paul, but it was one widely different from the Triumphs of Ancient Rome.Here was, not a warrior coming, after a campaign, laden with the gory spoils of many provinces or many kingdoms, or with thousands of slaves or prisoners fettered to his chariot—the Triumphant in this case was a woman, a woman no longer in the flower of youth, but already marked by the hand of time; and in her cortège were men of many lands and of many religions—men from the black races of Africa, men from the yellow races of Asia, men from the mixed races of the West Indies; Christians, Mohammedans, Buddhists—but free men all—free men all, some of them wearing the uniform of the British army, and proudly marching to the strains of Britain’s martial airs.
And, when in front of the noble temple, under the great canopy of Heaven, the vast throng invoked the blessing of Almighty God upon the aged Sovereign and her vast Dominions, each of those present felt in his heart the conviction that, as the Roman Empire had been built up by force and violence, so it had been destroyed by force and violence; but that the British Empire lived and would live for ever upon the eternal laws of Freedom and Justice.
And as it is for the British Empire as a whole, so it is for every component part of that Empire. That is the inspiration which shall ever guide us in the discharge of the duties which the Canadian people have intrusted to our care.”
— SAURIER