The Retirement of Jeanne Sauve: Governor General of Canada
To learn more about Canadian or Quebec politics, both McGill University and Concordia University in Montreal offer wonderful political science degrees, that you may want to look into.
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.
Governor generalship of Jeanne Sauve
Final address as Governor General of Canada - 1989
Jeanne Sauve went out with a bang whether she anticipated it or not. Her final speech was very controversial. She was accused of hidden her feelings about the doom of the Meech Lake Accord within the speech. The Meech Lake Accord was Canada's attempts at constitutional changes that were expected to make Quebec happy and keep them from separating from Canada.. Clyde Wells, the then premier of Newfoundland, protested that it was, "inappropriate for the Crown to be intruding in political affairs that way," Sauve defended that she was speaking about the Unity of Canada, which was her domain and not specifically on the Meech Lake Accord.
Retirement
Jeanne Sauve left Rideau Hall in 1990 and returned home to Montreal with her husband, Maurice . After retirement she continued her work with the Sauvé Foundation. Unfortunately, Maurice Sauve died two years later. On January 26, 1993, Jeanne Sauve also passed away. It was finally revealed that she did have Hodgkin's lymphoma. The Sauves' were buried at the Montreal Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery.
One year later, the Canada Post issued a stamp bearing her image.
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Carol Roach holds a masters in counselling psychology. She worked as a therapist at the Douglas Hospital in Montreal before becoming a professional writer.Carol is the author of the book Picking Up The Piece... View profile
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9 Comments
Post a Commentwell written - thank you
Interesting
Excellent information in this article. Thanks!
Great information.
You are a wealth of information and a great writer!
Great job on this article, the one you wrote on prickly rash and sleepwalking. Love your writing!
Thanks Carol... :o)
Such a sad ending, Hodgin's is a deadly disease. cheers
Another good History lesson, Carol.