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Queen coming to Manitoba

Prime Minister Stephen Harper talks to Queen Elizabeth II  during an audience with the Queen at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting today in Port of Spain, Trinidad.

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper talks to Queen Elizabeth II during an audience with the Queen at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting today in Port of Spain, Trinidad. (CHRIS RADBURN / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)

OTTAWA - The Queen is coming.

Manitoba is one of three provinces on the Canadian tour itinerary of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip announced today.

The royal visit will take place June 28 to July 6, 2010. The specific dates and locations of her visit to Manitoba have not yet been announced.

She will be in Ottawa for Canada Day.

Queen Elizabeth was last in Manitoba in October 2002 as part of her Golden Jubilee festivities.

This will be her fifth visit to the province. Her first visit was in 1951 when she was still a Princess. She came for the first time as Queen in 1970 for Manitoba’s centennial celebrations. She also visited as part of a cross-Canada tour in 1984.

The Queen will also visit Nova Scotia and other parts of Ontario during the eight-day tour.

mia.rabson@freepress.mb.ca

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