Queen Elizabeth II and Duke celebrate ‘Canada Day’

Queen Elizabeth II and Duke celebrate ‘Canada Day’. According to the latest news updates, The royal couple will arrive at Parliament Hill in the capital Ottawa in a horse drawn landau escorted by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Queen and Duke of Edinburgh were joining thousands of spectators at a televised concert to celebrate Canada Day on Thursday. The day is both a formal event and a party focusing on the theme “Our Year to Shine: Canada Welcomes the World” and it also celebrates Canada’s 143rd birthday.

Queen Elizabeth arrives in Ottawa on day three of nine-day Canadian visit, which is to cost $1.1 million extra on Canada Day.

Canada Day is a Canada’s national day, a federal statutory holiday celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, enactment of the British North America Act (today called the Constitution Act, 1867), which united two British colonies and a province of the British Empire into a single country called Canada. Canada Day observances take place throughout Canada as well as internationally.