[Royal Visit to Canada, 1959.] Typed 'draft of Press Release to be issued in Ottawa with the itinerary'.

Press release and itinerary totalling 6pp., foolscap 8vo, and 1p., 4to. Stapled and folded into a blue cover with a duplicated map of Canada with the 'Queen's route' on the reverse. The item begins with an initial press release (1p., 4to), headed 'Itinerary Announced'; this is followed by the 'Itinerary for the visit to Canada of her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness The Prince Philip 1959' (4pp., foolscap 8vo); following the itinerary is a 'PRESS RELEASE - Office of the Prime Minister' (1p., foolscap 8vo), 11 February 1959, announcing that 'President Eisenhower has accepted an invitation to come to Canada June 26th to join Her Majesty The Queen in the ceremonies marking the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway at the St. Lambert Lock near Montreal'; the final item is 'Press Release No. 6 | January 23, 1959', headed 'Her Majesty the Queen to attend Queen's Plate' (1p., foolscap 8vo): 'This year's running of The Queen's Plate will commemorate the One Hundredth Anniversary of the race which was established by Her Majesty's Great-Great-Grandmother, Queen Victoria in 1859'. No other copy traced.