Surigao was once
Caraga, a large district that also included parts of
Davao Oriental and eastern
Misamis Oriental. The province was further reduced in 1911 when the politico-military
commandancia of
Butuan, then a sub-province of
Surigao was created into the province of
Agusan. The still undivided
Surigao province held its first and only Carnival from Sept. 7-15, 1929. It was held at the height of the rainy season, but this did not prevent the Surigaonons from celebrating their own fair to the hilt.
The crowning of the
Surigao Carnival Queen, Her Majesty, Queen Lourdes I was attended with much fanfare, and the coronation had an Egyptian theme patterned after the national carnival. The Queen was surrounded with a retinue of beauties,
Miss Municipality winners from the towns of Surigao.
One other sensation of the
Surigao Carnival of 1929 was the
Bureau of Agriculture exhibit which displayed the agricultural and commercial products of the province.
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