History, Edward VIII is made King.
1/20/2009 at 9:44 AM
January 20, 1936 King George V dies, and Edward VIII is made King. His reign is short lived because he abdicated. He preferred Mrs Wallis Simpson rather than the Crown.
In 1919 the future King stopped off for a thirty-minute visit to Brandon. In fact he spent two hours and thirty minutes on Friday October 10th.
He arrived by special train and alighted at the CPR Depot on Pacific Avenue. To mark his visit were band music, and the singing of 3000 flag waving children.
At city hall he met with War wounded and presented medals of Honour to Brandon’s nursing sisters S.P. Johnstone (Royal Red Cross – first class), Lieutenant E.C. Whitehead (Military Cross), Sergeant J.J. Jackson (Distinguished Conduct Medal) Lieutenant C.G. Kerr (Military Cross) and Elkhorn’s Major R. de Waller (Military Cross).
Source:
http://www.royal.gov.uk/OutPut/Page143.asp