Adrienne Clarkson's Debut in Television

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Montreal's Concordia University has a wonderful women's studies program at the Simone do Beauvoir Institute

The duties of a governor general is to represent the ruling British Monarch in Canada. The governor general carries out administrative duties and also celebratory or festive activities. We will now look at the three female governor generals of Canada, two of which were from Montreal.

Adrienne Clarkson: Chinese Canadian Female Governor General of Canada

Adrienne Clarkson's Years in Journalism: "Take 30" and "the Fifth Estate"

Adrienne Clarkson's career in journalism

In 1964, Adrienne Clarkson was fortunate enough to be introduced to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's (CBS) afternoon Show, Take 30 by a friend in College. She was then hired by the CBC as a freelance book reviewer and thus began her 30 year career with the TV station. Within a year Adrienne became co-host of Take 30 and in doing so she became the first visible minority personage to raise to such a key position in Canadian television.

Adrienne stayed with Take 30 for ten years. During that time she also wrote for Chatelaine and Maclean's magazine. Furthermore, she also found time to write books. Her first two were romance novels; A Lover More Condoling was published in 1968 and Hunger Trace was published in 1970. The following year she published a nonfiction book, which was a collection of the male perspective on divorce entitled, True to You in My Fashion: A Woman Talks to Men About Marriage. This idea for the book germinated from the problems she was having with her own marriage at the time.

In 1974, Adrienne tried her hand at her own show, Adrienne at Large, a public affairs show that only lasted for four months. Though the show didn't last long, Adrienne did have a chance to travel to South Africa and Hong Kong. She interviewed prominent women activists of the time namely, Helen Suzman and Nadine Gordimer.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Clarkson