'I'm here to honour her': Manitobans flock to legislative grounds for gun salute to Queen Elizabeth II
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Ceremonial gunfire rang out on the Manitoba Legislature grounds to honour Queen Elizabeth II on the day of her funeral.
Ceremonial gunfire rang out on the Manitoba Legislature grounds to honour Queen Elizabeth II on the day of her funeral.
The ceremony began with a 21-gun salute on the south grounds, followed by a royal gun salute of 96 rounds to honour each year of the late monarch’s life.
Linda Blair joined the crowds on the grounds to take in the ceremony. The Queen has been a fixture throughout her entire life, and she wanted to find a way to honour her.
“All my life, I have seen The Queen in the very different stages of her life, and she’s always been a woman I could look up to and admire, and this is just the final way that I can say goodbye,” she told CTV News Winnipeg after the ceremony.
Ken Kuhn first met Queen Elizabeth as an Air Cadet during a parade in Vancouver for her coronation in the ‘50s.
“My memory is that I fainted on the parade, so I fainted for The Queen,” he recalled, laughing.
