Diamond Jubilee Photos - 60 Years, 60 Images

Queen Elizabeth II, with Wayne Gretzky by her side, drops the puck at the Vancouver Canucks –San Jose Sharks hockey game during her Golden Jubilee tour of Canada. Vancouver, British Columbia. October 7, 2002. [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Queen Elizabeth II in front of Golden Jubilee banners on the grounds of Old Brunswick House. Fredericton, New Brunswick. October 11, 2002. [Reuters RTRBZGP]

Queen Elizabeth II attends the unveiling of the Oscar Peterson statue at the National Arts Centre. Ottawa, Ontario. June 30, 2010. [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh during their tour to Winnipeg, Manitoba. July 3, 2010. [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh attend Canada Day festivities on Parliament Hill. Ottawa, Ontario. July 1, 2010. [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh enjoy performance of “A Celebration of Nova Scotia” at the Cunard Centre. Halifax, Nova Scotia. June 29, 2010. [Associated Press AP10063002406]

Queen Elizabeth II waves to well-wishers. Winnipeg, Manitoba. July 1959. [Courtesy University of Manitoba UM_PC_18_5855-4980-_027]

Queen Elizabeth II chats with Chief Frank Pelletier as they attend a performance of Appaloosa horses and Aboriginal dancers. Thunder Bay, Ontario. July 3, 1973. [CP Images 00902778]

Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh place a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the base of the National War Memorial. Ottawa, Ontario. October 2002.C12 [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Queen Elizabeth II delivers the Speech from the Throne in the Senate Chamber. Ottawa, Ontario. October 14, 1957. [Canada Science and Technology Museum CN Archive CN003820]

Queen Elizabeth II delivers the Speech from the Throne in the Senate Chamber. Ottawa, Ontario. October 18, 1977. [CP Images 3655454]

Queen Elizabeth II reviews cadets. Dieppe, New Brunswick. October 12, 2002. [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Queen Elizabeth II meets well-wishers. [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Queen Elizabeth II chats with jockey Ron Turcotte after he won the Manitoba Derby. Winnipeg, Manitoba. July 15, 1970. [CP Images 01882679]

Queen Elizabeth II attends a gala at the Commonwealth Games. Victoria, British Columbia. August 1994. [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Queen Elizabeth II during a walkabout following the International Fleet Review. Halifax, Nova Scotia. June 29, 2010. [CP Images 8968600]

Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to deliver the Speech from the Throne in the Senate Chamber. Ottawa, Ontario. October 14, 1957. [Canada Science and Technology Museum CN Archive CN003804]

Queen Elizabeth II visits the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Depot Division. Regina, Saskatchewan. May 19, 2005. [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Queen Elizabeth II speaks with members of the Doukhobor community. Veregin, Saksatchewan. October 1987. [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Queen Elizabeth II tours Expo ’67. Montréal, Quebec. July 3, 1967. [Library and Archives Canada e000990887]

Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh greet enthusiastic crowds outside First Avenue Public School. Ottawa, Ontario. October 1977. [CP Images 01689263]

Queen Elizabeth II reviews the Royal Regiment of Canada. Toronto, Ontario. Early 1970s. [CP Images 4920053]

Queen Elizabeth II waves to crowds attending Canada Day celebrations on Parliament Hill. Ottawa, Ontario. July 1, 2010. [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Queen Elizabeth II attends a formal dinner in her honour. Toronto, Ontario. September 28, 1984. [CP Images 344540CP]

Queen Elizabeth II, as Colonel-in-Chief, presents new colours to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's). Hamilton, Ontario. October 2002. [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Princess Elizabeth square dances at Rideau Hall during her first tour of Canada. Ottawa, Ontario. October 1951. [Canada Science and Technology Museum CN Archive CN002910]

Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh enjoy a walk with Governor General Vincent Massey and his dog Duff, who carries the Queen's purse. Ottawa, Ontario. October 1957. [Library and Archives Canada PA-168607]

Queen Elizabeth II unveils a cornerstone for the Canadian Museum of Human Rights. Embedded within it is a stone from the Meadows of Runnymede, England—the site of the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215. Winnipeg, Manitoba. July 3, 2010. [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Queen Elizabeth II poses with a painted portrait of her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria, who celebrated her own Diamond Jubilee as Queen in 1897. Rideau Hall. Ottawa, Ontario. July 1, 2010. [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Queen Elizabeth II congratulates singer–actress Ginette Reno and opera star Measha Brueggergosman after the Golden Jubilee Gala Concert at Roy Thomson Hall. Toronto, Ontario. October 2002. [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Queen Elizabeth II enjoys celebrations. Rankin Inlet, Nunavut. August 1994. [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Schoolchildren cheer for Princess Elizabeth and The Duke of Edinburgh. [Montréal, Quebec.] November 3, 1951. [Library and Archives Canada e0054770]

Queen Elizabeth II speaks with Inuit residents. Rankin Inlet, Nunavut. August 1994. [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Stephen Harper enjoy Canada Day festivities on Parliament Hill. Ottawa, Ontario. July 1, 2010. [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Queen Elizabeth II walks past the Guard of Honour at Uplands Airport. Ottawa, Ontario. June 1959. [Library and Archives Canada e0038934715]

Queen Elizabeth II, by Bryan Adams. London, England. 2003. [Courtesy Bryan Adams/Trunk Archive]

Queen Elizabeth II is helped into her raincoat on arrival at Keewatin Community College. The Pas, Manitoba. July 11, 1970. [CP Images 01882672]

Queen Elizabeth II is joined by education leader Sister Dorothy Moore at an event highlighting Mi’kmaq culture on the Halifax Common. Halifax, Nova Scotia. June 28, 2010. [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Queen Elizabeth II meets Canadian veterans. Ottawa, Ontario. 1992. [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Queen Elizabeth II unveils the Diamond Jubilee window design. Ottawa, Ontario. June 30, 2010. [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Elizabeth II, by Yousuf Karsh. London, England. 1951. [Library and Archives Canada e010675687/Courtesy of the Estate of Yousuf Karsh]

Queen Elizabeth II receives land-claim protest letter presented to her by six-year-old Innu Jonathon Pinette (with Newfoundland Premier Brian Tobin in background). Shetshatshiu, Newfoundland and Labrador. June 26, 1997. [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Queen Elizabeth II accepts a gift of one of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police horses during a visit to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Training Depot. Regina, Saskatchewan. July 4, 1973. [CP Images 915797]

Princess Elizabeth and The Duke of Edinburgh with Prince Charles and Princess Anne (now "Princess Royal"), by Yousuf Karsh. London, England. 1951. [Library and Archives Canada e010751638/Courtesy of the Estate of Yousuf Karsh]

Queen Elizabeth II meets athletes during the Commonwealth Games. Victoria, British Columbia. August 20, 1994. [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Queen Elizabeth II, by Yousuf Karsh. Ottawa, Ontario. 1984. [Courtesy of the Estate of Yousuf Karsh]

Queen Elizabeth II and President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower arrive to officially open the St. Lawrence Seaway. Saint-Lambert, Quebec. June 26, 1959. [Library and Archives Canada PA-121475]

Queen Elizabeth enjoys viewing a Hockey Hall of Fame exhibit featuring a very personal hockey jersey presented by Prime Minister Steven Harper and a 2002 photograph of Her Majesty, with Wayne Gretzky at her side, dropping the puck at the Vancouver Canucks– San Jose Sharks hockey game. Toronto, Ontario. July 5, 2010. [CP Images 9001213]

Queen Elizabeth II visits the Newfoundland School for the Deaf. St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. 1997. [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Queen Elizabeth II views exhibits in the Canadian Indian Pavilion at Expo '67. Montréal, Quebec. July 3, 1967. C54[CP Images 00766517]

Queen Elizabeth receives flowers from Logan MacGillivray, on Halifax Common. Halifax, Nova Scotia. June 28, 2010. [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Queen Elizabeth II attends a formal dinner in her honour. Ottawa, Ontario. 1957. [Canada Science and Technology Museum CN Archive CN003814]

Queen Elizabeth II meets patients at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre. Halifax, Nova Scotia. 1994 [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Queen Elizabeth II unveils an equestrian statue of herself by British Columbia sculptor Jack Harman, on Parliament Hill. Ottawa, Ontario. June 30, 1992. [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Queen Elizabeth II invests Jules Léger (later Governor General of Canada 1974–1979) as a Companion of the Order of Canada at Rideau Hall. Ottawa, Ontario. August 1973.

Queen Elizabeth II is presented with a bouquet of flowers by brownie Kathy Gibbons at Canada Day festivities on Parliament Hill. Ottawa, Ontario. July 1, 2010. [Department of Canadian Heritage]

Queen Elizabeth II reviews Guard of Honour. Toronto, Ontario. June 29, 1959. [CP Images 00902780]

Queen Elizabeth II speaks with Inuit residents. Rankin Inlet, Nunavut. August 1994. [Department of Canadian Heritage]