" 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.

Michael Foot's elder brothers were Sir Dingle Foot MP ( 1905 – 1978 ), a Liberal and subsequently Labour MP ; Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon ( 1907 – 1990 ), a Governor of Cyprus, a representative of the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964 to 1970, and father to campaigning journalist Paul Foot ( 1937 – 2004 ) and charity worker Oliver Foot ( 1946 – 2008 ); and Liberal politician John Foot, Baron Foot ( 1909 – 1999 ).

Instead the NSW Corps, now known as the 102nd Regiment of Foot, was to be recalled to England and replaced with the 73rd Regiment of Foot, whose commanding officer would take over as Governor.

Sauvé ( left ) at a garden party for the Ceremonial Guard and Governor General's Foot Guards at Rideau Hall, 1985

After undertaking a tour of Shelburne's Irish estates, he was advanced to lieutenant-colonel of the regiment of 106th Foot at Shelburne's instigation, and in 1763 was appointed to the lucrative posts of adjutant-general to the British army and Governor of Stirling Castle.

* 12 September 1944, a group of RAF Hawker Typhoons destroyed two Sherman tanks of the Governor General's Foot Guards, 4th Canadian Armoured Division in the vicinity of Maldegem, Belgium, killing 3 men and injuring 4.

* – The Governor General's Foot Guards

He was appointed honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of the Governor General's Foot Guards Regiment on 1 December 1898 and was subsequently appointed Honorary Colonel, a tradition that has continued with the post of Governors General to this day.

* Commanding officer, Governor General's Foot Guards ;

He was also a brother of the Liberal politician John Foot ( Lord Foot ), and of Hugh Foot ( Lord Caradon ), a Governor of Cyprus and British Ambassador to the United Nations, whose son was the campaigning journalist Paul Foot.

** Governor General's Foot Guards

* 21st Armoured Regiment ( The Governor General's Foot Guards )

* 21st Armoured Regiment ( The Governor General's Foot Guards )

* Commanding officer, The Governor General's Horse Guards ;

* Erection of Barracks for the Bank Guards and rooms for the Governor, officers and servants of the Bank ( 1790 ).

* Button's Troop ( The Governor General's Horse Guards ): 2 October 2010

Jackman did not serve in the military, but received the Canadian Forces Decoration in recognition of his appointment as a former honorary colonel of the Governor General's Horse Guards, a Toronto militia unit.

In 1936 the regiment was amalgamated with The Governor General's Body Guard to form The Governor General's Horse Guards, an armoured militia ( i. e., part-time reservist ) regiment, which still exists today as part of 32 Canadian Brigade Group in Toronto.

* 1898 – Gaspard Fauteux, Canadian politician, 19th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec ( d. 1963 )

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.

* 1920 – Gerald Bouey, Canadian civil servant, Governor of the Bank of Canada ( d. 2004 )

* 1939 – Lise Thibault, Canadian civil servant, 27th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec

In Canada, where the Act of Settlement is now a part of Canadian constitutional law, Tony O ' Donohue, a Canadian civic politician, took issue with the provisions that exclude Roman Catholics from the throne, and which make the monarch of Canada the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, requiring him or her to be an Anglican.

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

Charles played the emotionally disturbed and violent prisoner, Eugene Buffy, in the high successful Lynda La Plante drama series The Governor ( 1995 ); the title role in the Channel 4 pirate sitcom Captain Butler ( 1997 ); the warden of a women's prison in the Canadian sci-fi fantasy Lexx ( 2001 ); Detective Chief Inspector Mercer in 7 episodes of the BBC soap opera Doctors ( 2003 ); and soccer agent, Joel Brooks, in the Sky TV football soap Dream Team ( 2004-5 ).

The Minister of National Defence Art Eggleton advised Governor General Adrienne Clarkson to authorize more than 100 Canadian Forces members serving on military exchange programs in the United States and other countries to participate in U. S. operations in Afghanistan.

After 1970, HBC was a Canadian company with a Canadian as Governor.

For example, in each Canadian province the role is fulfilled by the Lieutenant Governor, whereas in most British Overseas Territories the powers and duties are performed by the Governor.

Suspension of the writ in Canadian history occurred famously during the October Crisis, during which the War Measures Act was invoked by the Governor General of Canada on the constitutional advice of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who had received a request from the Quebec Cabinet.

Field Marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis ( 10 December 189116 June 1969 ) was a British military commander and field marshal who served with distinction in both world wars and, afterwards, as Governor General of Canada, the 17th since Canadian Confederation.

With the cessation of hostilities, Alexander was under serious consideration for appointment to the post of Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the British army's most senior position beneath the sovereign, but he was invited by Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King to be his recommendation to the King for the post of Governor General of Canada.

* John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar ( 1807 – 1876 ), UK MP, NSW Governor, Canadian Governor General

* 1926 – Sylvia Fedoruk, Canadian scientist and politician, 17th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan ( d. 2012 )

The song was originally commissioned by Lieutenant Governor of Quebec Théodore Robitaille for the 1880 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony ; Calixa Lavallée wrote the music as a setting of a French Canadian patriotic poem composed by poet and judge Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier.

* 1-Gordon Arnaud Winter, 90, Canadian Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland.

" Canadian television covers a memorial service on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, which Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, and U. S. Ambassador to Canada Paul Cellucci presided over, and more than 100, 000 people attended.