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Set of 2 WW2 era invitations to the 1945 celebration of Dominion Day. This will be a much happier celebration than previous years: just weeks after War in Europe was over, and in a few months so would the War in the Pacific.
To Celebrate Dominion Day
The High Commissioner for Canada
and Mrs. Vincent Massey
at Home
at the Dorchester Hotel (Deanery Street Entrance)
Monday July 2nd 1945
6 to 8 p.m.
R.S.V.P The Private Secretary Canada House S.W.1
“At Home” reflects traditional British diplomatic language for hosting receptions.
11 ½ x 15 cm
Charles Vincent Massey (1887 –1967) was a Canadian diplomat and statesman who served as the 18th governor general of Canada from 1952 to 1959. Massey was the first governor general of Canada to be born in Canada.
Massey was born into an influential Toronto family and was educated in Ontario and England, obtaining a degree in history and befriending future prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King while studying at the University of Oxford. He was commissioned into the military in 1917 for the remainder of the First World War and, after a brief stint in the Canadian Cabinet, began his diplomatic career, serving in envoys to the United States and United Kingdom.
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