Proclamation Requesting that the People of Canada Set Aside April 17, 2021 as the Day on Which They Honour the Memory of His Late Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Who Passed Away on April 9, 2021 (SI/2021-18)

Richard Wagner

Administrator of the Government of Canada

[L.S.]

Canada

ELIZABETH THE SECOND, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories QUEEN, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.

François Daigle

Acting Deputy Attorney General

Great Seal of Canada

TO ALL TO WHOM these presents shall come or whom the same may in any way concern,

GREETING:

A Proclamation

Whereas Our Privy Council for Canada has directed that a proclamation be issued requesting that the people of Canada set aside April 17, 2021 as the day on which they honour the memory of His late Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who passed away on April 9, 2021;

Now Know You that We, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council for Canada, do by this Our Proclamation request that the people of Canada set aside April 17, 2021 as the day on which they honour the memory of His late Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who passed away on April 9, 2021.

Of All Which Our Loving Subjects and all others whom these Presents may concern are required to take notice and to govern themselves accordingly.

In testimony whereof, We have caused this Our proclamation to be published and the Great Seal of Canada to be affixed to it.

WITNESS:

Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Richard Wagner, Administrator of the Government of Canada.

AT OTTAWA, this fourteenth day of April in the year of Our Lord two thousand and twenty-one and in the seventieth year of Our Reign.

BY COMMAND,