Vernon │ 3.57 │ 11.57 │ │ A.M., │ │ 21st. New Westminster │ 4.12 │ 12.12 Vancouver │ 4.12 │ 12.12 Victoria │ 4.13 │ 12.13 │ │ PACIFIC OCEAN: │ │ British Ships at sea │ .... │ .... │ │ ─────────────────────────┴────────────┴────────────────── =THE SONS OF ENGLAND= =Diamond Jubilee Services Around= =the World,= =Sunday, 20th June, 1897.= Being an extract from the Annual Report of the Supreme Grand President of the Sons of England, given at St. Catharines, Canada, 8th March, 1898. 18. It has been my happy lot to be the President of the Sons of England during the record year of Her Majesty’s reign, an epoch year in the history of our British Empire, and it has given me the intensest pleasure to devote whatever power lay within me toward sustaining the loyal sentiments which have been evoked in so remarkable a degree. The Foreign nations were amazed at the wondrous attachment with which the subjects of Queen Victoria, at home and all over the world, joined in rejoicing over her welfare, and in attesting their loyalty to her person and her Crown, but the Jubilee home-coming was a revelation also to the people of the Home Land, who found thus vividly brought before their eyes the marvellous area over which our fathers and we who had emigrated from her shores, have spread her power, and at last have seemed to “understand” how real is the blood union existing between the Sons who have gone out into the world, and the Brothers who have remained at home. Summoned by the magic call of the Empress Queen, “Greater Britain” has suddenly stepped forward on the field as an actual and integral part of her Realm and Empire. In accordance with the instructions of the Supreme Grand Lodge at Brantford, an address, most beautifully and appropriately illuminated, was forwarded to Her Majesty conveying our devotion, and stating the belief “that the personality of the Crown is the strongest and most stable bond of union between the millions of people who spread in a world-embracing circle around the old Home-Kingdom, delight in proving faithful allegiance, and doing loyal service.” Our Society also joined heartily with all other societies in testifying together with them our united affection and loyalty upon the 22nd of June, the officially appointed Jubilee day.