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 020 THE LADY OF QUALITY This seciion of Every Woman's Encyclopaedia will deal with all phases and aspects of Court uid social life. It will contain authoritative articles upon : Prescntatious and other Ftuic iicns Court Balls The Art of Entertaining Dinner Parties, etc. Card Parties Dances At Homes Garden Parties, etc., etc. oj The Fashionable Resorts Europe Great Social Positions Occupied by Women Etiquette for all Occasions, etc. WOMEM IH GREAT SOCIAL POMTIOH^ Coiithuted fro»t pa^e jjS, Pan 4 THE WIFE OF THE QOVERNOR=QENERAL OF CANADA By SARAH A. TOOLEY A Post once Fraught with Risk and Discomfort— Now One of the Most Agreeable and Interesting of High Positions — Characteristics of Canadian Society — Curious old Privileges Attached to the Position of Governor-General VY/HEN Lord Durham, with his wife and to make overtures to the Canadians ? " year 1838, to assume the position of present Governor -General, and Lady Grey Governor - General of that then dis- affected and dis- united colony, his friends gave him mournful farewell. The voyage was a formidable un- dertaking. There were no steam- ships in those days, and the - position was looked upon as a painful exile. It was con- sidered partic- ularly brave of Lady Durham to accompany her husband. ' They were both fond of music, and the number of musical instruments which they took with them was the sub- ject of some wit- ticisms. People said it was necessary to have music on board " to keep up their spirits," and Sydney Smith Photo Lafayelle when they went out in 1904, for noV old feuds have died down and the Dominion is happy, prosper- ous, united, and loyal. The position of the wife of the Governor- General of Canada is un- doubtedly one of the most agreeable under the Crown. She goes amongst our own kith and kin for the most part ; homely, friendly, hard- working people, who give her a right loyal and hearty w^elcome, and she is received no less warmly by the Canadians of French extraction. Old differences of nationality and religion which kept the two Canadasin perpet- ual feud in the old VOU know t°hlt '-**^y°'"«y'Wif« °f Lord Grey, Governor.General of Canada. Lady Grey, whose dayS happily ha VC Durham 1^ -1;^^ •^'"'^'y- «^*^'°"^' '"'^""^'^ has endeared her to all classes in the Dominion, is an ^""" ^^r-.Acf.A r..r^r IS gomg ardent co..operator with her husband in all useful schemes been bridged over. She will find the
 * ^ children, embarked for Canada, in the No one commiserated Lord Grey, the