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.

William Joseph Slim, First Viscount Slim, former Governor General of Australia, was the principal British commander in the field during the Burma War.

The bicameral Parliament consists of the Senate ( seventeen-member body appointed by the Governor General ) and the House of Representatives ( seventeen seats ; members are elected by proportional representation to serve five-year terms ).

1875 Canadian Illustrated News cartoon shows Mackenzie the Mason and Governor General Lord Dufferin the Overseer In Canada, Mackenzie continued his career as a stonemason, building many structures that still stand today.

When the Macdonald government fell due to the Pacific scandal in 1873, the Governor General, Lord Dufferin, called upon Mackenzie, who had been chosen as the leader of the Liberal Party a few months earlier, to form a new government.

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

Lord Dufferin, the current Governor General, expressed early misgivings about a stonemason taking over government.

Mackenzie chose the following jurists to be appointed as justices of the Supreme Court of Canada by the Governor General:

* 1930 – The first British Empire Games were opened in Hamilton, Ontario by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon.

General Loganathan, of the Indian National Army, was Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which had been annexed to the Provisional Government.

* 1810 – Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.

* 1900 – Roland Michener, Canadian politician, Governor General of Canada ( d. 1991 )

* 2005 – Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th Governor General.

Upon arrival there, Phillip was to assume the powers of Captain General and Governor in Chief of the new colony.

* 1849 – The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.

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.

The Bank's governing bodies are the General Meeting of Shareholders, the Board of Directors, the Governor, the Director General and three Deputy Directors General ; the last five constitute the Directorate.

The messenger was a staff officer sent by the Governor of Alexandria General Jean Baptiste Kléber, and the report had been hastily written by Admiral Ganteaume, who had subsequently rejoined Villeneuve's ships at sea.

An instance of a Governor General exercising his power was during the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, when the Australian Prime Minister of the time, Gough Whitlam, was dismissed by the Governor-General.

On June 20, 1868, Governor General the Viscount Monck issued a royal proclamation asking for Canadians to celebrate the anniversary of the confederation.

Canada's first prime minister, John A. Macdonald, once directed the Governor General of Canada to issue an order-in-council directing that government papers be written in the British style.

The French Territory of Afars and Issas also differed from French Somaliland in terms of government structure, as the position of Governor General changed to that of High Commissioner.

The college was allowed to falter however after Ramsay left Halifax shortly after its establishment to serve as the Governor General of British North America.

The current, and 22nd, Prime Minister of Canada is the Conservative Party's Stephen Harper, who was appointed on February 6, 2006, by Governor General Michaëlle Jean, following the general election that took place that year.

* Governor General Michaëlle Jean of Canada, who was born in Haiti, bears two simbi as supporters on her coat of arms.

Examples include, Pauline Vanier, 46th Viceregal consort of Canada, Gabrielle Léger, the 48th Viceregal consort of Canada, Maurice Sauvé, the 50th Viceregal consort of Canada, and Michaëlle Jean, the 27th Governor General of Canada.

David Jacobson ( diplomat ) | David Jacobson, the Ambassador of the United States to Canada, presents his credentials to Governor General of Canada Michaëlle Jean on 29th October 2009.

Governor General of Canada | Governor General Michaëlle Jean, then Chancellor and Principal Companion of the Order of Canada, poses with a full group of Order of Canada appointees at the 101st investiture ceremony banquet in the Tent Room of Rideau Hall, 11 April 2008

The three opposition parties planned to table a motion of non-confidence in the House of Commons, and counted on the likelihood that the Governor General, Michaëlle Jean, would invite the coalition to govern instead of dissolving parliament and calling an election so soon after the last election.

The event was officially opened by Governor General Michaëlle Jean, who was accompanied by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge.

In 2008, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, of the re-elected minority government of Canada, requested that Governor General Michaëlle Jean prorogue Parliament.

Stephen Harper did in fact declare Parliament " dysfunctional " in August 2008 and called on Governor General of Canada Michaëlle Jean to dissolve parliament for the 2008 federal election.

On July 1, 2008, he was appointed by Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada as Officer of the Order of Canada, the second grade of the highest civilian honour in Canada.

Under an order-in-council issued by Governor General Michaëlle Jean on February 6, 2006 — the day Harper was appointed prime minister — when " the prime minister is unable to perform the functions of his office " Lawrence Cannon, then Jim Prentice, then the balance of the cabinet by order of precedence, " is authorized to act for the prime minister.

Governor General of Canada | Governor General Michaëlle Jean with Her Majesty's Cabinet, 30 October 2008

A presentation of letter of credence takes place in Rideau Hall's ballroom, 29 October 2009 ; at centre, Governor General Michaëlle Jean ( right ) and United States Ambassador to Canada David Jacobson ( diplomat ) | David Jacobson

During the swearing-in ceremony of Governor General of Canada | Governor General Michaëlle Jean on Parliament Hill, the Ottawa chapter of Citizens for a Canadian Republic demonstrated for the office to be elected and severed from the monarchy.

On 4 December 2008, Harper asked Governor General Michaëlle Jean to prorogue Parliament in order to avoid a coalition of the Liberals and New Democratic Party taking power months after the 2008 election.

Prime Minister Harper asked the Governor General, Michaëlle Jean, to prorogue parliament to prevent the coming confidence vote.

* Michaëlle Jean-now former Governor General of Canada

In November 2008, the three opposition parties in the Canadian parliament indicated their intention to defeat the Stephen Harper government in a motion of no confidence, and expressed their desire for the Governor General Michaëlle Jean, to ask a member of the opposition to form a new government.

On December 30, 2009, Cummings was named an officer of the Order of Canada by Governor General Michaëlle Jean.

The former Governor General of Canada, Michaëlle Jean, originally settled in Thetford Mines, after arriving in Canada from Haiti.