Английская Википедия:Elizabeth Dowdeswell
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Violet Elizabeth Dowdeswell[1][2] Шаблон:Post-nominals (née Patton; born November 9, 1944) is a Canadian public servant who served as the 29th lieutenant governor of Ontario from 2014 to 2023.[3] As lieutenant governor, Dowdeswell was the viceregal representative of the Crown in Right of Ontario and the first in over seven decades to serve under two different Canadian sovereigns. A champion of democracy and civil society, she is also the longest-serving lieutenant governor in Ontario's history.[4][5][6][7][8][9]Шаблон:EfnШаблон:Efn
Early life
Violet Elizabeth Patton was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on November 9, 1944. She moved with her family to Canada in 1947, settling in rural Saskatchewan.[10] Her father, Desmond Granville Patton (1920-2008), was a minister of the United Church of Canada.[11] Dowdeswell married at a young age but soon divorced.[11] She attended the University of Saskatchewan and Utah State University, and she later became a teacher and university lecturer.[12]
Career
Dowdeswell left teaching and entered public service as a special assistant to Saskatchewan's deputy education minister for two years (1976-78),[13] then worked as deputy minister of culture and youth during the New Democratic Party government of Allan Blakeney. She was then dismissed, along with other deputy ministers, after the Progressive Conservative government of Grant Devine took power in 1982.[11]
She held various positions in the federal public service during the 1980s, working at one point as assistant deputy minister at Environment Canada with responsibility for the Atmospheric Environment Service and negotiating the Framework Convention on Climate Change. She also led a public inquiry into Canada's unemployment benefits program and federal water policy.[14]
In 1992, Dowdeswell was selected to lead the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi, Kenya, serving a full four-year term and a one-year extension until she resigned in 1998.[15]
From 1998 to 2010, she was an adjunct professor at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health at the University of Toronto, while also serving as founding president and CEO of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization.[16] From 2010 until her appointment as Lieutenant Governor, she was the president and CEO of the Council of Canadian Academies.[17]
As lieutenant governor
Dowdeswell was appointed as lieutenant governor by Governor General David Johnston on the advice of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who selected Dowdeswell from a shortlist devised by the Advisory Committee on Vice-Regal Appointments. On September 23, 2014, she was sworn in during a ceremony held at Queen's Park in Toronto.[18] She is the third woman to serve in the position, after Pauline Mills McGibbon and Hilary Weston.
Dowdeswell declared in her installation address that she would not immediately espouse a particular area of focus during her time as lieutenant governor. Instead, she said she would engage the people of Ontario, listening to their concerns and ideas. She has since adopted "sustainability" and "Ontario in the world" as personal themes. In addition, Dowdeswell has called herself Ontario's unofficial "Storyteller-in-Chief".[19]
According to annual reports published on her office's website, Dowdeswell has conducted, on average, more than 700 public engagements yearly as lieutenant governor, as well as numerous visits abroad to the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Denmark.[20] She has visited all of Ontario's provincial electoral districts.[21]
On September 22, 2022, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the addition of Dowdeswell, alongside other Canadian lieutenant governors, to the country's so-called stop list banning entry to Russian territory.[22]
Dowdeswell's mandate came to an end on November 14, 2023, and she was succeeded by Edith Dumont.[23]
Titles, styles, honours and arms
Titles and styles
As a former lieutenant governor in Canada, Dowdeswell is entitled to be styled the Honourable for life. She had the additional style of Her Honour while in office.[24][25]
Honours
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- Appointments
- Шаблон:Flagicon May 24, 2012: Officer of the Order of Canada (OC)
- Шаблон:Flagicon November 26, 2014: Dame of Justice of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (DStJ)
- November 26, 2014Шаблон:Spaced ndashNovember 14, 2023: Vice Prior of the Priory of Canada of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (while in office)
- Шаблон:Flagicon September 23, 2014: Member of the Order of Ontario (OOnt)
- September 23, 2014Шаблон:Spaced ndashNovember 14, 2023: Chancellor of the Order of Ontario (while in office)
- Medals
- Шаблон:Flagicon June 18, 2012: Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
- Шаблон:Flagicon 2022: Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal (Nova Scotia)[17]
- Other awards
- November 18, 2020: Louie Kamookak Medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society[26]
- Honorary appointments
- Шаблон:Flagicon September 23, 2014Шаблон:Spaced ndashNovember 14, 2023: Colonel of the Regiment of The Queen's York Rangers (while in office)
- Шаблон:Flagicon September 23, 2014Шаблон:Spaced ndashNovember 14, 2023: Honorary Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police[27]
Honorary degrees
Dowdeswell has received several honorary degrees from various universities in Canada and Europe. These include:
Jurisdiction | Date | School | Degree |
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Шаблон:Flagu | May 25, 1994 | University of Saskatchewan | Doctor of Laws (LLD)[28] |
Шаблон:Flagu | 1998 | Mount Saint Vincent University | Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL)[29] |
Шаблон:Flagu | Spring 1999 | York University | Doctor of Laws (LLD)[30] |
Шаблон:Flagu | October 22, 1999 | Royal Roads University | [31] |
Шаблон:Flagu | Spring 2001 | University of Regina | [32] |
Шаблон:Flagu | 2013 | University of Ontario Institute of Technology | Doctor of Science (DSc)[33] |
Шаблон:Flagu | June 9, 2015 | University of Western Ontario | Doctor of Laws (LLD)[34] |
Arms
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References
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