Programme of the City's Opening Day Celebrations

dated Victoria Day, May 24, 1900

Committee: Mayor J. V. Teetzel, Aldermen Ten Eyck, Evans, Nicholson, Walker, Dwyer and Dixon; H.G. Wright, John H. Tilden, John Ronan, F. W. Fearman, Thomas Kilvington, William Southam and A. Kappele.

9:30 - Flag raising, Gore Park extension, Sons of England Band, Mayor, Aldermen, Parks Board and Canadian Club officers

10:00 - Championship baseball match, Hamilton vs. Grand Rapids, baseball grounds, Dundurn Park

10:30 - Reception to Chapin Post, G.A.R., of Buffalo, at Canada Pacific Railway Station, Hunter Street

10:55 - Grand parade of military, society and trades organizations with bands, beginning at Armories Drill Hall, ending at Victoria Park

12:00 - Military exercises at Victoria Park; 4th Field Battery, 13th, 19th and 77th Regiments with bands

2:30 - Children's concert, 1,600 voices and Sons of England Band, Professor Johnson conductor, on lawn east of battery lodge. Songs: "Land of Greatness", "Rule Britannia", "The Maple Leaf", "Soldiers of the Queen", "When Johnny Canuck Comes Home", and the national anthem

3:15 - Drill by Brantford Cadets, Hamilton Cadets, fancy drill by Royal Foresters' Encampment, Toronto, on lawn fronting the castle

4:00 - Patriotic addresses on the lawn in rear of Dundurn castle by Sir John Bourinot, Hon. Thomas Bain, Hon. E. J. Ewell of Buffalo, Hon. Dr. Montague, Mr. H. G. Wright, Chairman of the Board of Parks Commissioners, and others

4:30 - Balloon ascension, baseball match, concert by Sons of England Band, public inspection of Dundurn castle

8:00 - Electrical illumination of Gore Park and City Hall; floral display

8:15 - Pyrotechnic display in Dundurn Park by Thomas A. Hand and chief pyrotechnist, Richard Bawden, of Hand & Co.; band concerts in Dundurn Park and the Armory




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