Charles III’s coronation on May 6 is supposedly a spectacle of ancient tradition. But the rites, and the countries they are for, have changed radically in 200 years. Here’s what Canada was up to the last times a new monarch was crowned
The teenage Victoria would never have guessed she’d be the first monarch of a self-governing Canada. But between her accession on June 20, 1837, and the coronation on June 28, 1838, rebellions – and their crushing defeat – would give the queen a vivid picture of what Canadians wanted for their future.
Loyalist forces advance to capture the patriote stronghold of Saint-Charles, east of Montreal, in 1837. Nathaniel Hartnell made this engraving from a work by Lord Charles Beauclerk, a British officer in the battle.British North America of the 1830s was a patchwork of colonies laid over a much older patchwork of First Nations. Settlers had elected assemblies, but British-appointed governors and their hangers-on made the important decisions.
But the violence convinced Britain that something should change, and it sent a new governor, Lord Durham, to decide what. One half of his solution – merging two Canadas into one – was adopted quickly. The other – making Canada’s governor answerable to its elected representatives – would not arrive until 1848, after a trial run in Nova Scotia, which had never rebelled. This established the form of democracy, responsible government, that put Canadians on a path to full independence.
George VI stands beside his wife, Queen Elizabeth, and daughters Elizabeth and Margaret. Five months earlier, George had been Prince Albert, Duke of York, until his brother abdicated and left him in charge.Londoners hold a tea party in Brook Road, Hornsey, for the coronation of George VI. Boys sleep on a bench in Trafalgar Square the night before the ceremony.Cubmasters from Jamaica stand outside the home where they are staying on Jamaica Road in London's Bermondsey district.
At the 1926 Imperial Conference, the countries agreed they were “autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status ... though united by a common allegiance to the Crown.” The 1931 Statute of Westminster backed up that promise in British law. New coronation rites reflected this by giving dominions equal billing in this question for the king:
Getting the footage to Canada was a massive effort: Canisters of film were helicoptered to London’s Heathrow Airport, flown to Labrador on British jet bombers, then relayed by the Royal Canadian Air Force to Montreal – all so the CBC could show the ceremony half an hour before American networks did.
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