Canada celebrates her conquest of Buffalo by denominating this first day of July and the first of the reign of His Britannic Majesty King Edward VII as Dominion Day at the Pan-American Exposition.

The conquest was a peaceful one. In general outline it was patterned after Gen. Miles campaign in Porto Rico, lacking only the tropical gush of the Porto Ricans. The 48th Highlanders did it. When they struck town yesterday Buffalo surrendered. Those intimidating busbies, those bonnie red jackets, the irresistible kilties, those stall-fed calves, the far-gleaming knees, those husky shoulders - there was no use in opposing such an aggregation of manly attractions and Buffalo surrendered gracefully. In triumph then, while the merry musicians nodded their plumes and played "God Save the King" and "Blue Bonnets Over the Border," the gallant Highlanders marched to the camp near Lincoln Parkway with a cadence that shook the earth.

There was a lilting swagger to their tread that was particularly edifying to behold. When the band was not playing the soldiers swung along as if keeping time to the refrain.

"Sing hey, my braw John Hielandman,
Sing ho, my braw John Hielandman,
There's not a lad in a' the lan'
Can match wl' my John Hielandman."

Today the British flag floats from the flagstaff in the West Esplanade, and its spendors gleam afar, also from the flagstaff near the Electric Tower.

The weather is as fine as if it had been made to order for the Canadian visitors. The sun is hot, but a cool breeze tempers its heat.

The 48th Regiment Highlanders, one of the two kilted regiments in Canada, left Toronto 507 strong - officers and men - and traveled in a special train [yesterday]...

The Highlanders presented a brave appearance when they left the train at the Pan-American. Their uniform consists of red coat, plaid kilt of the Davidson Tartan, black and red stockings, white canvas half-legins, and black ostrich feather bonnets. The troops were in heavy marching order with full armament and equipment. Maj. Wolf met them at the railroad gate and a squad of Exposition guards were present to escort them to the camp. The Sunday crowds, which seemed smaller than usual, gave the Canadian soldiers a hearty welcome and play the "Invicible Eagle" as they marched across the Esplanade. The famous 48th Highlander Band responded with a composite piece, containing prettily blended strains of "God Save the King" and "Yankee Doodle."

Camp Millard Fillmore was reached at 2 o'clock. The 73rd Company of the Sea Coast Artillery, under the command of Capt. Wisser, turned out the guard in welcome to the visiting soldiery.

During the forenoon throngs of visitors from the Dominion poured into the Exposition grounds, and at 11 o'clock the vicinity of the Temple of Music, in which the dedication exercises were held, was enlivened by moving groups waiting the arrival of the distinguished officials, the troops and the late crowds which came in on the numerous excursions which were run from the principal Canadian cities this morning.

A few minutes before noon the sound of pipes floated through the Lincoln Parkway and the crowd hastened down to the Esplanade and the forecourt and lined the approach. Then came the Canadians and their escort, circling through the trees, affording brief shelter to the kilties who had marched from the city and who had received enthusiastic greeting all along the line. Then were heard the enlivening strains of the "Cock of the Walk" and up the approach came the blue of Uncle Sam, the Marines serving as escort to their soldierly cousins from over the way swinging up the broad approach with precision, and presenting an appearance in their dress uniforms which won round after round of hearty applause from the Canadians who cheered them just as lustily as a minute later they cheered the famous Pipers and the Highlanders' Pioneer Corps which headed the line. The 48th Highlanders followed, 500 stalwart, brawny representatives of Canada's famed militia, and the spectacle they presented as they swept up in the approach and across the Esplanade in their showy kilts and scarlet coats, was a grand one, one well worth traveling miles to see.

The troops dressed back to the east line of the approach and presented arms while Minister Borden, with Mayor Diehl and J.N. Adam, chairman of the Pan-American committee on Foreign States and Relations, and the members of Parliament and the Canadian Pan-American Commissioners, passed in review and on to the Temple of Music.

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ed.note: International law between Canada and the United States in 1901 prevented an armed body of troops from crossing the border. On June 27, the Buffalo Evening News reported this fact and added, "A special permit must be obtained from the War Department. There is little doubt that the permit will be forthcoming but it will have to be soon to be worth anything."