Speakers of the Canadian Senate - Romeo LeBlanc, Joseph Edouard Cauchon, Speaker of the Canadian Senate, John Jones Ross, Gildas Molgat (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 117. Not illustrated. Chapters: Romeo Leblanc, Joseph Edouard Cauchon, Speaker of the Canadian Senate, John Jones Ross, Gildas Molgat, Auguste Charles Philippe Robert Landry, Dan Hays, Jean Marchand, George William Allan, Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Thomas Vien, Guy Charbonneau, Noel Kinsella, James Horace King, Charles Alphonse Pantaleon Pelletier, Hewitt Bostock, Wishart Mclea Robertson, Alexandre Lacoste, Joseph Bolduc, Georges Parent, Amos Edwin Botsford, Sydney John Smith, Mark Robert Drouin, David Christie, Pierre Edouard Blondin, Jean-Paul Deschatelets, Allister Grosart, George Stanley White, Raoul Dandurand, James Kirkpatrick Kerr, Maurice Riel, Josiah Burr Plumb, William Miller, Lawrence Geoffrey Power, Arthur Charles Hardy, John Ross, Muriel Mcqueen Fergusson, Elie Beauregard. Excerpt: Romeo-Adrien LeBlanc (18 December 1927 24 June 2009) was a Canadian journalist, politician, and statesman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 25th since that country's confederation. LeBlanc was born and educated on Canada's east coast and also studied in France prior to becoming a teacher and then a reporter for Radio-Canada. He was subsequently elected to the House of Commons in 1972, whereafter he served as a minister of the Crown until 1984, when he was moved to the Senate and became that chamber's Speaker. He was in 1994 appointed as governor general by Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chretien, to replace Ramon John Hnatyshyn as viceroy, and he occupied the post until succeeded by Adrienne Clarkson in 1999, citing his health as the reason for his stepping down. His appointment as the Queen's representative caused some controversy, due to perceptions of political favouritism, though he was praised for raising the stature of Acadians and francophones, and for opening u...