" 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 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.

* Governor General's Performing Arts Awards

* Governor General's Performing Arts Award for lifetime achievement ( 2003 )

In these veins, he established in 1992 the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Voluntarism in the Arts, and the Governor General's Flight For Freedom Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literacy.

On 13 January 2010, he received the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award for his part in numerous charitable concerts and campaigns during his career, and on 1 May 2010 was given the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for his 30 years of contributions to the arts.

Category: Governor General's Performing Arts Award winners

Category: Governor General's Performing Arts Award winners

Also, in an alcove to the south of the ballroom's main door is a stained glass window that celebrates the excellence of Canadian performing artists and the establishment of the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards.

In 2008, he received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement., for which he was the subject of an National Film Board of Canada animated short by Cam Christiansen entitled The Real Place.

Category: Governor General's Performing Arts Award winners

In 2012, he received Canada's Governor General's Performing Arts Awards for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.

* A Composer's Dream, a short film tribute to Shore on his Governor General's Performing Arts Award, National Film Board of Canada website

Category: Governor General's Performing Arts Award winners

In 2001, he received the Canadian Governor General's Performing Arts Awards for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.

In 2004, Mercer was presented with the Governor General's Performing Arts Award.

On May 3, 2008, the Governor General of Canada presented Levy with the Governor General ’ s Performing Arts Awards ( GGPAA ), a lifetime achievement award considered Canada's " most prestigious artistic honour ".< ref > General's Performing Arts Award site biography > In 2010, Levy was awarded the ACTRA Award by the union representing Canada's actors.

* Governor General's Performing Arts Award-Lifetime Artistic Achievement ( 1993 )

On August 20, 2007, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, announced that Robinson was inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts in Sacramento.

On December 6, 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Walt Disney into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts.

For the task, Prime Minister Stephen Harper convened a special search group — the Governor General Consultation Committee — which consisted of Sheila-Marie Cook, secretary to the Governor General ( the chairperson ); Canadian Secretary to the Queen and Usher of the Black Rod Kevin MacLeod ; Christopher Manfredi, dean of the Faculty of Arts at McGill University ; Rainer Knopff, a political scientist at the University of Calgary ; Father Jacques Monet, of the Canadian Institute of Jesuit Studies ; and Christopher McCreery, historian and private secretary to the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.

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 ).

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

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

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

* Governor General's Medals in Architecture at the Canada Council for the Arts

Won the Alberta Governor General Award in Art 1980, and the World Culture Prize in Research Arts & Letters from Milan Italy in 1983.

In 1987 he received the Governor General's Literary Award and the Toronto Arts Lifetime Achievement Award.

In 2004, Oswald was one of six artists to win the annual Governor General ’ s Awards in Visual and Media Arts, as awarded by the Canada Council for the Arts, for lifetime achievement.