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File:DAR Steamship Broach Front.jpg|A D.A.R. Steamship Lines broach estimated to be pre-1902.
 
File:DAR Steamship Broach Front.jpg|A D.A.R. Steamship Lines broach estimated to be pre-1902.
 
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File:Gravy Boat 1.jpg|This silver gravy boat is suspected to be pre-1902 by the Victorian Crown used on the crest.
 
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Image:DAR0025b.jpg|[[DAR0025|No. 25]], "Strathcona" leading the Royal Train at [[Windsor Station]] in [[Windsor]] NS in 1901.
 
Image:DAR0025b.jpg|[[DAR0025|No. 25]], "Strathcona" leading the Royal Train at [[Windsor Station]] in [[Windsor]] NS in 1901.
 
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==Rererences and Footnotes==
 
==Rererences and Footnotes==

Revision as of 04:31, 3 March 2012


Royal Consent

A recurring question on D.A.R. history is the use of the Crown on various items. Generally speaking, to use an item reserved for Royalty, one must receive Royal Consent by means of an instrument such as a Royal Charter or Royal Warrant granted by the Queen, the Privy Council or in Canada by the Queen in Council.

Of note to date there is the question of what was the consent that allowed the D.A.R. to use a Royal Crown, and noteably a Victorian Crown, on locomotive engine numberplates, food service silverware and the D.A.R. Steamship Co. crest? Further more if there was such consent, why did the D.A.R. never in any way use the terminology "Royal" if it was so entitled?

No evidence so far of any British Royal Charter or Warrant nor special consent has been found leaving us to wonder just how it was that the crown was used from the creation of the D.A.R. through to

Photographic eveindence shows that locomotives No. 1 though to No. 43 all sported the Crowned numberplates with the exception of No. 8, 32 and locos to which we have no photos.


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