An ode : dedicated to their excellencies on their arrival in Canada.
H. G.
[Ontario? : s.n.,
1898?]
Poem is signed 'H. G.' and dated 'Xmas, '98'.
The poem chronicles the journey of the 4th Earl of Minto (Sir Gilbert John Murray Kynynmond Elliot) and his wife from Great Britain to Ottawa in 1898. Minto served as the Governor General of Canada from 1898 to 1904.
The fourth stanza from the end quotes the title of Kipling's poem of Canada 'Our Lady of the Snows' which was first published in the Times of London in 1897.
Minto, Gilbert John Murray Kynynmond Elliot, Earl of, 1845-1914
Governors general