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3914. [Schoolchildren passing in review before Sir Charles Tupper, Amherst, N.S.]

3914. [Schoolchildren passing in review before Sir Charles Tupper, Amherst, N.S.]
Posted, with a cancel in blue ink, at Amherst on May 8, 1913 to Mr. A. M. Peart, Guysboro, Nova Scotia: "School Children passing in review before Sir Charles Tupper. This is below the Post Office -- he is abreast of P.O. in an auto. This is Marshall's grade - the middle portion of it. He was one of the leaders. M. -- 2000 children paraded."
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Yes it is. Sir Charles Tupper was a venerable Canadian politician, best known today for being the briefest-serving Prime Minister (a few weeks in the summer of 1896). He was nearly 92 at the time this was taken in 1913. He was a native of the town of Amherst, so it would have been a great and likely long-remembered event for the local children to honour their most famous native son in his extreme old age.
9 years ago.

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