Jamie Hill was four years old when his family walked over to a neighbour's home in Kitchener, Ont., to watch Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953.
The now 73-year-old doesn't remember much from the ceremony that would become a social and cultural phenomenon, but a constant reminder of the day hangs in his home in St. Agatha, Ont.
Queen Elizabeth's coronation took place on June 2, 1953. The three-hour service was the first coronation to be televised in full and has been credited with leading to a surge in television sales at the time. It was also one of the first major world events to be broadcast internationally. While the country was still going through a period of strict austerity in the aftermath of the Second World War, the mentality from organizers was to make the event as big and as grand as possible, said Vovk.
The King's coronation guestlist is significantly pared down, with about 2,000 invited. The procession will also be shortened to about a quarter of the length of the queen's. The relationship between the Crown and First Nations peoples predates the creation of Canada, but Harris said there was no emphasis on including Indigenous groups in 1953.
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