Sean Chase - Special to the Observer and News

Sean Chase - Special to the Observer and News

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PETAWAWA POINTS: "It's a great day to be a Canadian, a Royal Canadian" - Prince Philip's 1997 visit to Petawawa

Editor’s note: To honour the memory of Prince Philip, the Pembroke Observer and News is pleased to be able to republish Sean Chase’s Petawawa Points column about the Duke of Edinburgh’s excursion to Garrison Petawawa on Canada Day, 1997, to visit the infantrymen of the Royal Canadian Regiment. This column originally ran in the Pembroke Daily Observer’s July 2 issue in 2015.

April 9, 2021 Column
His Royal Highness was the first to sign the guest book for the new Town of Petawawa, as Deputy Mayor Ed Chow with wife Corry (left) watch on as Prince Philip speaks with Mayor Dennis Carmody and wife Dorilla.