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Signature. David Lloyd Johnston PC CC CMM COM CD FRSC ( hon) FRCPSC ( hon) (born June 28, 1941) is a Canadian academic, author, and statesman who served from 2010 to 2017 as Governor General of Canada, the 28th since Canadian Confederation. Johnston was the special rapporteur appointed to investigate reports of foreign interference ...
David Lloyd Johnston (28 de junio de 1941) es un académico, autor y estadista canadiense. Ha sido el vigésimo octavo gobernador general de Canadá y presidente de la Universidad de Waterloo, en Ontario, Canadá. Vida política y negocios
- Early Life, Education and Hockey
- Academic Career
- Government Advisor
- Governor General of Canada
- Personal Life
The son of a hardware store owner, David Johnston was born in Copper Cliff, Ontario, a mining town outside of Sudbury, and raised in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. In 1959, he earned a scholarship to Harvard University, where he played defence on the hockey team. Though physically small, he became known for his determination and competitiveness. As one...
Johnston had a long and distinguished academic career. After teaching law at Queen’s University and the University of Toronto, he became dean of law at the University of Western Ontario. At the age of 37, he became principal of McGill University, where he served from 1979 to 1994 and gained a reputation as both an energetic administrator and a skil...
Diplomatic and discreet, Johnston was frequently called upon by both Liberal and Conservativegovernments to chair committees charged with making recommendations on difficult issues, including the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, the federal Information Highway Advisory Council, the National Task Force on High Speed Broadband...
Johnston was named Canada’s 28th governor general on 8 July 2010, an appointment that was widely praised. He took office on 1 October 2010, replacing Michaëlle Jean. Jean had dealt with a constitutional controversy when she prorogued Parliament at the request of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose government was trying to avoid defeat in Parliamen...
Family has been central to Johnston’s life. In 1964, he married Sharon Downey, whom he had known since elementary school in Sault Ste. Marie. In subsequent years, she completed a PhD in respiratory physiology, ran a horse farm and wrote a novel. The couple have five daughters and many grandchildren. Because of Johnston’s love of reading, his grandc...
Biography. The Right Honourable David Johnston. C.C., C.M.M., C.O.M., C.D. Photo credit: Sgt Ronald Duchesne, Rideau Hall © OSGG-BSGG, 2015. David Johnston was born in Copper Cliff, near Sudbury, Ontario on June 28, 1941, the son of Dorothy Stonehouse and Lloyd Johnston, the retail manager of a local hardware store.
gobernador general de Canadá (2010-2017) / De Wikipedia, la enciclopedia encyclopedia. David Lloyd Johnston (28 de junio de 1941) es un académico, autor y estadista canadiense. Ha sido el vigésimo octavo gobernador general de Canadá y presidente de la Universidad de Waterloo, en Ontario, Canadá.
Principal David Lloyd Johnston. David Johnston, LLD’00, took McGill’s helm in 1979 at the age of 37 and served for 15 years. Born in Sudbury and raised in Sault Ste. Marie, Johnston called himself “a small-town kid” who never forgot those small-town values. Former McGill colleagues frequently single out his warmth, integrity and ...
16 de mar. de 2023 · OTTAWA - Former governor general David Johnston is the “eminent Canadian,” as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau put it, who will oversee investigations into foreign interference in Canadian...
