Julie Payette
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Julie Payette is a Canadian engineer, scientist and former astronaut who served as the 29th governor general of Canada from 2017 to 2021.
Official portrait, 2017
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Payette's official portrait from STS-96
Payette aboard the Kibō laboratory of the International Space Station during STS-127
Governor General of Canada
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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
Julie Payette
…Julie Payette (French pronunciation: ; born October 20, 1963) is a Canadian engineer, scientist and former astronaut who served as the 29th governor general of Canada from 2017 to 2021. Payette holds engineering degrees from McGill University and the University of Toronto. She worked as a research scientist before…
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