3-028-166 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Prince Arthur in Canada, 1870. 'The return of his Royal Highness Prince Arthur from the United States to the seat of the British American Government at Ottawa has been reported by telegraph...We have received from Mr. W. Notman, photographic artist, of Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto, several excellent portraits of his Royal Highness and the gentlemen about him, in the costumes they have worn upon some public occasion; and one of them, which is engraved, shows the Prince half-attired in uniform, half in the walking-dress suitable to a Canadian winter. The temperature at this time of the year, towards the middle of March, sometimes falls to 12 deg. below zero. This was the case in 1869 at Toronto, and it may be so again in 1870, for aught we know. Prince Arthur does not seem, therefore, to be too much wrapped up; and the famous overcoat of Irish frieze which he wore in his tour through Ireland a year and a half ago might perhaps be a welcome addition to this sort of attire. But Canada has plenty of warm wraps of her own, bearskins and deerskins, besides good stout woollens, to defend her hardy sons, and the Queen's son likewise, from her severe winter climate'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.