Adrienne Louise Clarkson is a Canadian journalist and stateswoman who served as the 26th governor general of Canada from 1999 to 2005.
Clarkson in 2011
St. Hilda's College, the women's college at the University of Toronto's Trinity College, where Clarkson enrolled in 1956
The Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, in the creation of which Clarkson assisted, and which she dedicated in May 2000
Clarkson and John Ralston Saul (at right) greet the President of Russia Vladimir Putin and his wife, Lyudmila Putina, at Rideau Hall, December 18, 2000
The governor general of Canada is the federal representative of the Canadian monarch, currently King Charles III. The monarch of Canada is also sovereign and head of state of 14 other Commonwealth rea
Adrienne Clarkson
…Adrienne Louise Clarkson (Chinese: 伍冰枝; née Poy; born February 10, 1939) is a Canadian journalist and stateswoman who served as the 26th governor general of Canada from 1999 to 2005. Clarkson arrived in Canada with her family in 1941, as a refugee from Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, and was raised in Ottawa. After…
Louise Arbour during her first official visit to the Citadelle de Québec
(Left to right) The wife of Thomas Crerar, King George VI, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, Queen Elizabeth, and Governor General the Lord Tweedsmuir at the Château Laurier hotel in Ottawa, 1939. Mackenzie King was the only leader of the opposition to be involved in the appointment of a governor general, in 1935 deciding with then-prime minister Richard Bennett to choose Tweedsmuir.
Vincent Massey (left), the first Canadian-born viceroy since Confederation
Michaëlle Jean swearing the oaths of office as administered by puisne justice Michel Bastarache, September 27, 2005