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Date: 1949-03-31
By: Canada (Parliament)
Citation: Canada, House of Commons Debates, 20th Parl, 2nd Sess, 1949 at 2199-2200.
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NEWFOUNDLAND

ARRANGEMENTS FOR CELEBRATION ON ENTRY INTO CONFEDERATION

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Right Hon. L. S. St. Laurent (Prime Minister): May I take just a moment to remind all hon. members that the program for the ceremony of tomorrow appears in this afternoon’s newspapers. It will commence at twelve o’clock sharp on parliament hill, at the main entrance of the centre block. It will consist of a broadcast of that part of the ceremony

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which will take place in St. John’s, to be followed immediately by brief addresses and by the first mallet strokes to carve the emblem of Newfoundland on the frontispiece of the arch of the peace tower. The whole ceremony is intended to last about three-quarters of an hour. At six o’clock the house took recess.