September 11th, 1944

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12:30am

FDR's train crossed the border at Rouse's Point, NY. At 0130 they were joined by a detail of four Royal Canadian Mounted Police who would accompany them to Quebec City, P. Q. and back from Quebec City, P. Q. to the border.

Canada

FR

9:00am

FDR's train arrived at Wolfe's Cove station which is on the banks of the St. Lawrence River just below the Plains of Abraham.

Quebec, Canada

FR

9:45am

The Govenor General of Canada (The Earl of Athlone), Her Royal Highness Princess Alice (The Countess of Athlone), and the Right Honorable William L. Mackenzie King (Prime Minster of Canada) called on FDR on his train.

Quebec, Canada

FR

10:00am

Prime Min. Churchill's train pulled up at Wolfe's Cove station. FDR's party and Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill's party exchanged greetings. Accompanying Winston S. Churchill were Lord Moran (Winston S. Churchill's private physician), Lord Leathers (Minister of War), Lord Cherewell (British Paymaster General); Adm. of the Fleet Sir Andrew B. Cunningham, First Sea Lord Field; Marshal Sir Alan F. Brooke, Chief of Imperial General Staff; Sir Charles Portal, Chief of Air Staff; Gen. Sir Hastings L. Ismay, Chief of Staff to Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill as Minister of Defense; and Maj. Gen. R. E. Laycock, Chief of Combined Operations.

Quebec, Canada

FR

10:25am

FDR and Prime Min. Churchill arrived at the Citadel. Here FDR was officially received into Canada. A composite guard of honor of approximately 150 men, made up of equal detachments of Royal Canadian Navy, Army, and Air Force personnel was drawn up on the parade ground. News photographers and members of the press, some one hundred strong were present at the ceremonies.

Quebec, Canada

FR

1:30pm

FDR, Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill, ER, Mrs. Churchill and Prime Min. William L. Mackenzie King were luncheon guests of the Gov. Gen. Earl of Athlone and Princess Alice at the Citadel.

Quebec, Canada

FR

3:00pm

FDR and Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill met in FDR's Map Room to review the latest news of the war.

Note: Estimated time.

Quebec, Canada

FR

4:30pm

Ray Atherton, United States Ambassador to Canada, called on FDR.

Note: Estimated time.

Quebec, Canada

FR

8:30pm

FDR, ER, attended a viceregal dinner at the Citadel as guests of the Gov. Gen. Earl of Athlone and Her Royal Highness Princss Alice. The guest list also included Prime Min. and Mrs. Churchill; Prime Min. William L. Mackenzie King; Cardinal Villeneuve; Right Reverend Phillip Carrington, Anglican Archbishop of Quebec; Premier Duplessis of Quebec; Ray Atherton and Mrs. Atherton; Adm. William D. Leahy, Gen. George C. Marshall, Gen. Henry H. Arnold, Adm. Ernest J. King, Stephen T. Early; Lt. Gen. B. B. Somervell, Commanding General, Army Service Forces; Rear Adm. Wilson Brown; Vice Adm. Ross T. McIntire; Maj. Gen. Edwin M. Watson; Miss Malvina Thompson; Right Honorable Malcolm MacDonald, United Kingdom High Commissioner to Canada; Adm. of the Fleet Sir Andrew B. Cunningham; Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke; Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Charles Portal; Maj. Gen. R. Laycock; Gen. Sir Hastings L. Ismay; Field Marshal Sir John Dill, Chief of the British Joint Staff Mission to the United States; Adm. Sir Percy Noble; Lt. Gen. G. N. Macready; Air Marshal Sir William Welsh; Lord Cherwell; Comdr. C. R. Thompson, Naval Aide to Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill; John Martin, Secretary to Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill; Sir Eugene Fiset, Lt. Gov. of Quebec and Lady Fiset; Dr. E. H. Coleman, Canadian Under-Secretary of State; the Canadian Chiefs of Staff Air Marshal R. Leckie, Lt. Gen. J. C. Murchie, and Vice Adm. G. C. Jones; Maj. Gen. Maurice Pope, Military Aide to Prime Min. Winston S. Churchill; and Col. D. B. Papineau, Aide to Prime Min. William L. Mackenzie King.

Quebec, Canada

FR

11:00pm

Retired

Note: Estimated Time

Quebec, Canada

FR

ER

Quebec, Canada

USH

USH = White House Usher's Diary, STE = Stenographer's Diary, PC = Press Conference, TU = Tully's Appointment Diary

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