PETAWAWA, Ontario  As things now stand, when Prince Charles succeeds his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, his many roles will include being the king of Canada.

But as his 11-day tour of the country with the Duchess of Cornwall, his wife, drew to a sleepy close on Thursday, few Canadians seemed to be looking forward to the day when his face appears on their coins and their laws are proclaimed, as well as their criminals prosecuted, in his name.

The huge crowds that greeted Charles and Princess Diana during the 1980s were absent, frequently replaced by groups, like one at the airport near here, that could be measured by the dozens or, at one stop in Newfoundland, with the fingers of two hands.

When three Canadian government jets carrying the royal party landed outside Petawawa, a town of about 14,600 around 200 miles north of Rochester, N.Y., no one greeted it other than the staff of the tiny airport. Charles, wearing a Canadian Army uniform, met informally here with soldiers who had served in Afghanistan, but no spectators stood along the motorcade route.