" Other prestigious architectural awards are the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture, the Alvar Aalto Medal ( Finland ), the Carlsberg Architecture Prize ( Denmark ), and the Governor General's Awards ( Canada ).

* Hugh MacLennan, Governor General's Awards winning author.

* Governor General's Bodyguard ( now President's Bodyguard )

In the Canadian Army, a number of regular and reserve units have cavalry roots, including The Royal Canadian Hussars ( Montreal ), the Governor General's Horse Guards, Lord Strathcona's Horse, the Royal Canadian Dragoons, and the South Alberta Light Horse.

Of these, only Lord Strathcona's Horse and the Governor General's Horse Guards maintain an official ceremonial horse-mounted cavalry troop or squadron.

* Governor General's Horse Guards ( Canada )

Category: Governor General's Award winning non-fiction writers

In 1999, he received a Governor General's Award for the Performing Arts.

On March 5, 2012, the band won the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.

Category: Governor General's Performing Arts Award winners

The Governor-General exercises ceremonial functions, but reserve powers, under the constitution, can be used at the Governor General's discretion.

Technically, only the Governor General's request for troops was necessary.

* Mowry Baden, sculptor and winner of the 2008 Governor General's Award in Visual Arts

* Governor General's Warrant, a non-budgeted payment instrument in Canadian law

Similarly, the viceroy administers and distributes the Governor General's Awards, and will also give out awards associated with private organizations, some of which are named for past governors general.

The governor general also serves as honorary Colonel of three household regiments: the Governor General's Horse Guards, Governor General's Foot Guards and Canadian Grenadier Guards.

Winner, 2007 Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction ; Nominee ( Nonfiction ), National Book Critics Circle Award 2007.

See, Governor General's Award for English language non-fiction.

The novel won the Canadian Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize for fiction.

* Canada: the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Literature and Illustration ( English and French ).

There are three household regiments specifically attached to the Royal Household ( the Governor General's Foot Guards, the Governor General's Horse Guards, and the Canadian Grenadier Guards ), as well as two chapels royal in Ontario.

The Governor General's Awards are a collection of awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, marking distinction in a number of academic, artistic and social fields.

Only Adrienne Clarkson created two Governor General Awards — the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts and the Governor General's Medal in Architecture ( though this was effectively a continuation of the Massey Medal, first established in 1950 ).

Since their creation in 1937, the Governor General's Literary Awards have become one of Canada's most prestigious prizes, awarded in both French and English in seven categories: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, children's literature ( one each for text and illustration ), and translation.

During her tenure from 1999 to 2005, Adrienne Clarkson made an effort to obtain copies of every Governor General's Literary Awards winning book from fairs and second hand shops for the governor general's study.

The Governor General's Awards in Commemoration of the Persons Case have been presented since their creation by Edward Schreyer in 1979, and honour the promotion of equality for girls and women in Canada.

The Governor General's Performing Arts Awards are the foremost honours presented for excellence in the performing arts, in the categories of dance, classical music, popular music, film, and broadcasting.

The Governor General's Awards in Visual Arts and Media Arts were first presented in 2000.

* Awards page from the Governor General's official web site

* Governor General's Literary Awards at the Canada Council for the Arts

* Governor General's Performing Arts Awards

* Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts at the Canada Council for the Arts

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* Governor General's Awards for the best Canadian fiction, poetry, non-fiction, drama, children's literature ( text ), children's literature ( illustration ) and translation, in both English and French

* Governor General's Awards for the best Canadian fiction, poetry, non-fiction, drama, children's literature ( text ), children's literature ( illustration ) and translation, in both English and French

DPZ ’ s projects have received numerous awards, including two National AIA Awards, the Thomas Jefferson Award, the Vincent Scully Prize and two Governor ’ s Urban Design Awards for Excellence.

He and Baroness Tweedsmuir together established the first proper library at Rideau Hall, and, with his wife's encouragement, Buchan founded the Governor General's Literary Awards, which remain Canada's premier award for literature.

In particular, Governor Nelson Rockefeller has expressed as cogently and clearly as anyone the case for a resumption of atmospheric tests.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim the week of June 11th to 17th, 1961, as Miss Rhode Island Pageant Week, with deep appreciation to the Jaycees, local and statewide, for the presentation of their beautiful Pageants and the encouragement of all Rhode Island girls to participate.

To have applied statewide the decisions of the two cases heard in Superior Court, in my opinion, would have placed us clearly out of compliance with the Wagner-Peyser Act and would have immediately opened the way for the Secretary of Labor, were he so inclined, to notify the Governor of such noncompliance, set a date for hearing, and issue his finding.

Chauncey Depew, one-time runner-up for the Republican Presidential nomination, was attending a convention at Saratoga, where he was scheduled to nominate Colonel Theodore Roosevelt for Governor of New York when he noticed that the temporary chairman was a man he had never met.

Governor Wentworth contributed an ox for a barbecue on the green beneath the three-hundred-foot pines, and a barrel of rum was broached.

Governor Notte said last night he plans to name a committee to make the study and come up with recommendations for possible changes in time for the next session of the General Assembly.

A check for $4,177.37 representing the last payment of a $50,000 federal grant to Rhode Island Hospital was presented to the hospital administrator, Oliver G. Pratt, yesterday by Governor Notte.

He was getting the feel of the room for a concert tomorrow night for Puerto Rico Governor Luis Munoz Marin.

Mackenzie formed a government and asked the Governor General to call an election for January 1874.

He was elected as Governor of Tennessee for two terms ; all these offices were gained as a member of the Democratic Party.

While campaigning for U. S. President, the then Governor Clinton returned to Arkansas to see that Ricky Ray Rector would be executed.

When the crowd — eventually reinforced by mutinous gardes françaises — proved a fair match for the fort's defenders, Governor de Launay, the commander of the Bastille, capitulated and opened the gates to avoid a mutual massacre.

Until 1928 it was directed by a General Manager, after this time instead by a Governor elected by an internal commission of managers, with a decree from the President of the Italian Republic for a term of 7 years.

By 1972, however, with only a minimum of work done on the I-95 right of way and none on the potentially massively disruptive Inner Belt, Governor Francis Sargent put a moratorium on highway construction within the MA-128 corridor, except for a short stretch of Interstate 93.

Immediately following the fatal ceiling collapse, Governor Mitt Romney ordered a stem-to-stern safety audit conducted by the Illinois engineering firm of Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. to look for additional areas of risk.

However, in July 2006, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor George Pataki, and Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. announced the final approval for the New York City Housing Trust Fund derived from $ 130 million in Battery Park City revenues.

Mu Bai and Shu Lien trace the theft to Governor Yu's compound and learn that Jade Fox has been posing as Jen's governess for many years.

In 1898 the Governor of Jamaica began appointing a Commissioner for the Islands.

Starting in 1959 the chief official overseeing the day to day affairs of the islands ( for the Governor ) was the Administrator.