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GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S TRAIN CANADA Edmonton Nov : 25 : 36 My own most precious one, I have just got your cable. I fear there is nothing for it but sailing on Dec 24th. Jan 2nd would cut it too fine. As I said in my letter, we could risk that if there was some urgent reason why you should stay over Xmas; but it would be a risk, for it would only give you at the most 4 days before the State Dinner. I have been seeing endless people here from Scotland - many recalled my earliest youth. I also met "Royal Flush"['s brother], who is in the Government Service here. I had a delightful dinner with the soldiers last night, and after that a smoking concert of the legion. but always a speech from poor J.B! Yesterday afternoon I met all the Northern pilots - wonderful keen young men. They can't start at their job, for the lakes aren't frozen yet. They flew me over Edmonton, and I saw the Rockies 250 miles away quite clearly.