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Honourable Ramon John Hnatyshyn PC, CC, CMM, CD, QC Can, QC Sask, BA LLB LLD(hc) Sask, LLD(hc) Alb, LLD(hc) Chernivtsi, LLD(hc) NBC, LLD(hc) Nfld, LLD(hc) Queen, DPhil(hc) Yonsei, FRHSC(hon) |
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In office 29 January 1990 – 8 February 1995 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister | Brian
Mulroney Kim Campbell Jean Chrétien |
| Preceded by | Jeanne Sauvé |
| Succeeded by | Roméo LeBlanc |
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| Born | 16 March 1934 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
| Died | 18 December 2002 (aged 68) Ottawa, Ontario |
| Spouse(s) | Karen Gerda Nygaard Andreasen |
| Profession | Politician, Lawyer |
| Religion | Ukrainian Orthodox |
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Ramon John Hnatyshyn PC CC CMM CD QC FRHSC(hon) (16 March 1934 – 18 December 2002), commonly known as Ray Hnatyshyn (pronounced /nəˈtɪʃən/), was a Canadian politician and statesman who, until 8 February 1995, served as the Governor General of Canada. He was appointed as such by Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, on the recommendation of then Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, to replace Jeanne Mathilde Sauvé as viceroy. The official announcement of the appointment was made on 14 December 1989,[1] and Hnatyshyn's investiture as the 24th governor general since Confederation took place on 29 January 1990.[1]
Hnatyshyn was born and educated in Saskatchewan and also served in the Royal Canadian Air Cadets prior to being elected to the House of Commons in 1974, where-after he served as a minister of the Crown in two non-successive governments until 1988. He was appointed as the Canadian viceroy at the end of the following year, and proved to be a populist governor general, reversing some exclusive policies of his predecessor, and was praised for raising the stature of Ukrainian Canadians, and for opening up Rideau Hall to ordinary Canadians and tourists alike.
On 4 June 1979, Hnatyshyn was sworn into the Queen's Privy Council for Canada,[2] giving him the accordant style of The Honourable; however, as a former governor general of Canada, Hnatyshyn was entitled to be styled for life with the superior form of The Right Honourable.
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Hnatyshyn, a Ukrainian Canadian, was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, as the son of John Hnatyshyn, whose political links would provide Hnatyshyn with the opportunity while growing up to overhear debate between his father and John Diefenbaker, who would later become prime minister.[3] Hnatyshyn attended Victoria Public School and Nutana Collegiate Institute, as well as enrolling in the Royal Canadian Air Cadets, where he was placed in the Spitfire Squadron in Saskatoon and given the designation: Air Cadet #107. After graduation from high school, Hnatyshyn went on to attend the University of Saskatchewan, earning there a Bachelor of Arts in 1954 and a Bachelor of Law in 1956. Four years later, on 9 January, he married Karen Gerda Nygaard Andreasen, and with her had two sons.[1]
After being called to the Bar of Saskatchewan in 1957, Hnatyshyn's family moved to Ottawa upon his father being summoned to the Senate in 1959. There, Hnatyshyn worked for his father's law firm while also lecturing at the University of Saskatchewan's College of Law.[3] However, he eventually set these jobs aside and ran for the Progressive Conservative Party in the 1974 federal election to win his seat representing Saskatoon—Biggar in the House of Commons.[1] Following the abolishment of this riding and the dissolution of parliament, Hnatyshyn won a commons seat for the region of Saskatoon West, for which he served as Member of Parliament until he lost his position in the election of 1988. During this time, he was appointed first to the Cabinet chaired by Joe Clark on 2 April 1979, and then to that headed by Brian Mulroney on 30 June 1986, the same year he was called to the Bar of Ontario.
It was announced from the Prime Minister's office on 14 December 1989 that Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, had approved the recommendation of her Canadian prime minister, Brian Mulroney, to appoint Hnatyshyn as her representative. He was subsequently sworn-in during a ceremony in the Senate chamber on 29 January of the following year.
Hnatyshyn thereafter made an effort to open up Rideau Hall to the public, establishing a visitors' centre and initiating tours of the palace and the royal park in which it sits. These moves were a complete reversal of the policies of Hnatyshyn's predecessor, Jeanne Sauvé who had closed Rideau Hall to the general public. Hnatyshyn, on the other hand, staged on the grounds the first of the annual Governor General's Summer Concert Series in 1991, and, the year after, mounted His Excellency's Most Excellent Rock Concert and re-opened the skating rink to the public. These events blended with some of Hnatyshyn's self-imposed mandates during his viceregal tenure, such as a desire to engage Canadian youth and focus attention on education, and an encouragement of the arts. 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. Further, he founded the International Council for Canadian Studies, the Governor General Ramon John Hnatyshyn Education Fund, the Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Law, and the Governor General's International Award for Canadian Studies.[1]
Amongst numerous other official and ceremonial duties, the Governor General presided over celebrations to mark the 125th anniversary of Confederation,[3] and welcomed to Rideau Hall Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and his wife, Diana, Princess of Wales, along with a host of foreign dignitaries such as President of Russia Boris Yeltsin, and King Hussein and Queen Noor of Jordan. Further, he undertook a number of state visits, including one to Ukraine,[1] before his time serving at Her Majesty's pleasure ended on 6 February 1995.
Throughout his tenure as the Canadian viceroy, Hnatyshyn was both defended and criticised by the Monarchist League of Canada. In their final summary of Hnatyshyn's years in office, though, the former governor general was generally viewed to have not stood up for the Canadian Crown that he represented, choosing to follow instead of Vincent Massey's example, that of Sauvé, who was herself seen as a republican. This lack of loyalty, it was agued, left Hnatyshyn with few defenders when he was targeted for his spending and actions, which he did face from the Reform Party over his salary and taxes.[4]
After his departure from Government House, Hnatyshyn returned to practicing law at the firm of Gowling, Strathy & Henderson, where he had previously worked between 1989 and 1990. In 2002 he was installed as Chancellor of Carleton University in Ottawa, however, only months later, shortly before Christmas, Hnatyshyn died of pancreatitis. Per law, he lay-in-state for several days in the Senate chamber, and, though he was Ukrainian Orthodox, Hnatyshyn was commemorated on 23 December 2002 at Ottawa's Christ Church Cathedral, in a multi-faith ceremony that included the funeral rite of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – officiated by Archbishop Yurij, Bishop of Toronto, and the clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – and a eulogy from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's chief correspondent, Peter Mansbridge.[5] Adrienne Clarkson, by that time the sitting governor general, paid tribute to one of her predecessors via video, as she and her husband were en route to the Persian Gulf to spend Christmas with Canadian troops stationed there.[6]. Hnatyshyn was then buried at Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa.
On 16 March 2004, Canada Post unveiled at a ceremony attended by Hnatyshyn's widow, a CAD$0.49 postage stamp designed by Vancouver graphic artist Susan Mavor, and bearing the formal portrait of Hnatyshyn taken by Canadian Press photographer Paul Chaisson on the day Hnatyshyn became governor general, along with a tone-on-tone rendering of part of Hnatyshyn's coat of arms.
In 2006, a 48 minute documentary DVD examining the life of Ramon Hnatyshyn "A Man for All Canadians" was released in canada by IKOR Film (http://www.amanforallcanadians.com/) and funded by the OMNI Documentary Fund (http://www.omnitv.ca). The DVD was directed by Igor Loutsiouk and the executive producer was Iryna Korpan.
"A Man for All Canadians" http://www.amanforallcanadians.com/
Гнатишин Роман Іванович DVD Highlights http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE5eM185Zbc
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Viceregal styles of Ray Hnatyshyn |
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| Reference style | His Excellency The Right Honourable Son Excellence le très honorable |
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| Spoken style | Your Excellency Votre Excellence |
| Alternative style | Sir Monsieur |
Hnatyshyn's style and title as governor general was, in full, and in English: His Excellency The Right Honourable Ramon John Hnatyshyn, Chancellor and Principal Companion of the Order of Canada, Chancellor and Commander of the Order of Military Merit, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief in and over Canada, and in French: Son Excellence le très honorable Raymon John Hnatyshyn, chancelier et compagnon principal de l'ordre du Canada, chancelier et commandant de l'ordre du mérite militaire, gouverneur général et commandant en chef du Canada. It should be noted that, for Hnatyshyn, Commander-in-Chief was strictly a title, and not a position that he held; the actual commander-in-chief (who can also be, and is, called such) is perpetually the monarch of Canada.[7]
In his post-viceregal life, Hnatyshyn's style and title was, in English: The Right Honourable Ramon John Hnatyshyn, Companion of the Order of Canada, Commander of the Order of Military Merit, Member of the Order of New Brunswick, and in French: le très honorable Ramon John Hnatyshyn, compagnon de l'ordre du Canada, commandant de l'ordre du mérite militaire.
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1973 – 18 December 2002: Queen's
Counsel for Saskatchewan (QC)[8]
30 September 1974 – 1 October 1988: Member of
Parliament (MP) 4
June 1979 – 18 December 2002: Member of the Queen's
Privy Council for Canada (PC)
1988 – 18 December 2002: Queen's
Counsel for Canada (QC)[8]
1989 – 18 December 2002: Honorary Life Member of the
Law Society of Saskatchewan
29 January 1990 – 8 February 1995: Chancellor and
Principal Companion of the Order of Canada (CC)[9]
29 January 1990 – 8 February 1995: Chancellor and Commander
of the Order of Military Merit (CMM)[10]
29 January 1990 – 8 February 1995: Knight of Justice, Prior, and
Chief Officer in Canada of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital
of Saint John of Jerusalem (KStJ)[11]
29 January 1990 – 8 February 1995: Chief Scout of
Canada
1990 – 18 December 2002: Honorary Member of the
Royal Military College of Canada Club
1993 – 18 December 2002: Honorary Fellow of the
Royal Heraldry Society of Canada (FRHSC)
29 January 1990: Canadian Forces Decoration
(CD)
1992: Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary
of the Confederation of Canada
2002: Queen Elizabeth II
Golden Jubilee Medal
1989: Ukrainian World Congress St.
Volodymyr Medal[1]
1996: Hebrew University
Mount Scopus Award[1]
29 January 1990 – 8 February 1995: Colonel of
the Regiment of the Governor General's
Horse Guards
29 January 1990 – 8 February 1995: Colonel of
the Regiment of the Governor General's Foot
Guards
29 January 1990 – 8 February 1995: Colonel of
the Regiment of the Canadian Grenadier
Guards
23 May 1990: University of Saskatchewan,
Doctor of Laws (LLD)[12]
1991: Queen's University, Doctor of Laws
(LLD)[13]
29 October 1994: Memorial University of
Newfoundland, Doctor of Laws (LLD)[14]
1994: University of Alberta, Doctor of
Laws (LLD)[15]
: University of
Northern British Columbia, Doctor of Laws (LLD)[16]: Chernivtsi University, Doctor of
Laws (LLD)[8]
: Yonsei
University, Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil)[8] Saskatchewan: Statue,
Saskatoon Canada: Ramon John Hnatyshyn
Cup Canada: Ramon John Hnatyshyn
Award for Law Canada: Ramon John Hnatyshyn
Award for Voluntarism in the Arts
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| Parliament of Canada | ||
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| Preceded by New electoral district |
Member of
Parliament for Saskatoon West 1979 – 1988 |
Succeeded by Electoral district abolished |
| Preceded by Alfred Pullen Gleave |
Member of
Parliament for Saskatoon—Biggar 1974 – 1979 |
Succeeded by Electoral district abolished |
| 24th Ministry - Government of Brian Mulroney | ||
| Cabinet Posts (2) | ||
| Predecessor | Office | Successor |
| John Crosbie | Minister of Justice 30 June 1986 – 7 December 1988 |
Joe Clark (acting) |
| Erik Nielsen | President of the Privy Council 1985 – 1986 |
Don Mazankowski |
| 21st Ministry - Government of Joe Clark | ||
| Cabinet Posts (1) | ||
| Predecessor | Office | Successor |
| Alastair Gillespie | Minister
of Energy, Mines and Resources 4 June 1979 – 2 March 1980 |
Marc Lalonde |
| Academic offices | ||
| Preceded by Arthur Kroeger |
Chancellor of Carleton
University 2002 |
Succeeded by Marc Garneau |
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